Jonathan,
The reporting option in
6.0 is called NOM and it is included in your 6.0 base license. It will
gather information from 5.1 master servers.
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:9U6ha-ZpH2YJ:eval.veritas.com/mktginfo/products/White_Papers/Data_Protection/nbu_6_Technical_Brief_NOM_final.pdf+netbackup+nom&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 8:01
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backup success rate
LOL
My Symantec Sales Rep
was out here three weeks ago pitching Backup reporter as the way to go in my
mixed 6.0 and 5.1 environment.
Oh
my!
-Jonathan
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:33
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu]
calculating backup success rate
I was told by my
netbackup 6.0 instructor not to buy backup reporter because it is built in to
6.0. The backup reporter was for versions below 6. can anyone comment on
this? The instructor has been with Symantec for over 9 years and most of them in
support.
Greg
From: rcarlisle
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Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:28
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu]
calculating backup success rate
Greg,
Vision is Symantec's
big user conference. It is coming up next week in Las Vegas. It is
definitely worth attending. If you are looking at reporting tools, I would
suggest checking out Aptare and Symantec Backup Reporter. Tools like
these can make your reporting life for management much
easier.
Reneé
Carlisle
ServerWare
Corporation
From: Hindle,
Greg [mailto:Greg.Hindle AT constellation DOT com]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:12
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu]
calculating backup success rate
Thanks. These reports
are for monthly metrics and upper management does see them. I was just curious
what others are doing to report this info. We don't have any reporting tools in
place (yet). You mention Vision? What is this a user
conference?
Greg
From: rcarlisle
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Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:46
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu]
calculating backup success rate
Greg,
Great questions.
I would say that it depends on the audience. Any reporting tool on the
market for NBU today can give you this information in different "slices".
Many clients do track this information and it is a great way to get a quick
"health check" of the environment. If you are tracking this information
for Management, I would speculate they are interested on the % of successful
backups you ran and if you are meeting SLA's. High level reports of the number successful
vs. the number of backups run should suffice. For their level, you may
decide to strip out test backups, backups that were intentionally killed, and
backups with multiple attempts. But that may depend on your environment
and management.
If you are reporting
for business units, DBAs, SA's..etc, they primarily care about if their backup
ran or not. You would probably want to strip out failed attempts, but you
might choose to include a report on backups that should have run but
didn't
If you are creating a
report for yourself or other NBU operators, you probably want to look at
multiple attempts. This can help you identify potential issues in your
environment that could threaten future success of your
backups.
I don't know if your
going to Vision this year, but there are several sessions on backup reporting
you might want to check out.
Good
Luck
Reneé
Carlisle
ServerWare
Corporation
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 8:57
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup
success rate
How does everyone track this? Do you
count just total successfully backups vs. the number of attempts? And how do you
handle a backup that failed 3 times but ran good on the
forth?
Greg
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