You can search back accurately to the depth of your retention policies.  The
image information that's stored for restoration purposes contains the amount
of data backed up.  With bpimagelist & some scripting, what you're
suggesting is possible.  

Otherwise, as Ed suggests, for searches past your retention dates, a
third-party product or effort on your part is necessary.

-M



-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:17 AM
To: Piszcz, Justin
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question with backup-data growth rates?


On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:40:18AM -0400, Piszcz, Justin wrote:
> Is there anyway to determine on a percentage or MB/month basis how much
> the backups are growing?

NetBackup doesn't keep long-term data.  You need an additional product
that collects this data and allows you to report on it later.
 
> Or do you need NB Reporter for this?

Advanced Reporter is a dead product.  My recommendation would be
Aptare's StorageConsole.  In fact, we used this product a couple of
weeks ago to produce a graph for management showing our backup volume
over time (one of the many graphs and reports it can give you).

        ../Ed 

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