I have received feedback about my interpretation of the data in the
STREAMS files from some informed sources. As it currently stands, my
audit-coverage.pl script DOES NOT do a thorough job of handling the
case where there is a 0 birth-time for a stream, thus any messages of
the form:
client path policy schedule (type) INITIAL due
are probably erroneous and should be ignored. As I have some time
I'll take another crack at this and send an update when I have better
data. Please keep in mind that because this script relies upon my
interpretation of undocumented and unsupported data structures, it is
neither supported nor supportable by Symantec.
--Larry
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:48:41AM -0500, Larry Fahnoe wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Attached is a tarball containing a perl script I wrote to look for
> backups that were overdue. It focuses mainly on full backups and
> knows only about frequency based scheduling, so it is not completely
> generalized, but it should be of help if someone needs to check up on
> the scheduler. It has an option (-o) to set a floor-threshold on the
> number of days overdue, and another (-f) that says to report only on
> full backups. It compares the contents of all the STREAMS files
> against policy data looking only at active streams, and then uses
> birth-time, retention, and frequency information to determine if a
> stream should be reported on.
>
> Usage: bppllist -allpolicies -l | ./audit-coverage.pl [-df] [-o overDueDays]
> -d -- debug
> -f -- report only on FULL backups
> -o days -- report only on backups overdue by more than 'days'
>
> Output is of the form:
>
> client path policy schedule (type) due on DATE (x days overdue)
> client path policy schedule (type) INITIAL due
>
> I wrote this due to the number of scheduling problems observed with
> NBU 6 when I needed a means of seeing where my biggest problem areas
> were. Please let me know if you either find this of use, or if you
> have fixes for it (like adding calendar based scheduling support).
>
> It should work with NetBackup [56] on *IX master servers with perl 5
> or better, and probably a Windows master if you have perl and change
> the path to netbackup/db/images in the call to File::Find::find().
>
>
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Larry Fahnoe, Fahnoe Technology Consulting, fahnoe at FahnoeTech.com
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