Re: [Veritas-bu] Audit time again, need NetBackup backup success or failure history.
2007-07-02 17:42:23
I would agree with Peter (mostly). I
would add that if the image is there AND it’s of a similar size to other
images of that system, then it’s proof. You can have a failed backup
that still saves part of its image to the catalog. The other problem with
bpimagelist is that it doesn’t have the name of what’s in the
image. You can list that the client in question had 5 backups on that day, but
unless you have something more than bpimagelist, there’s no way (on the
command line) to verify that those five backups contain the filesystems they should
contain. For example, what if the server in question had 6 filesystems? What
if it had 5 filesystems, but this is 5 backups of only 1 of them and not of the
other 4? You could verify this by using the restore GUI, but I don’t
know of any way to do it on the command line. I’m wondering about
bpflist, but I’m not sure….
It would be nice if you could use bpflist
to grab the initial mount point of the backup (can you?), then script it to show
the mount points that were backed up that day. That still doesn’t solve
the first problem that one of the backups could be partial, etc.
The true audit test, of course, would be
to do an alternate restore of the thing. To hell with logs, baby, give me a
restore!
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W. Curtis
Preston
VP Data
Protection
GlassHouse
Technologies
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Peter Buschman
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To: BeDour, Wayne;
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Audit
time again, need NetBackup backup success or failure history.
Wayne:
If the retention period is longer than 6 months, you can get this information
from the bpimagelist command. Proof that an image exists is proof of a
successful backup. If the retention period is less than 6 months and you
do not have a reporting product or are keeping logs some other way, then I am
afraid you are out of luck.
Best regards,
Peter Buschman
At 21:57 2.7.2007, BeDour, Wayne wrote:
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Our environment is
HP-UX 11.11, Netbackup 5.1 MP3 backing up mostly HP unix with some Sun and
Windows backups. It’s audit time again and the auditors are asking
for validation that a backup ran 6 months ago. They give me the date and
machine / policy and want me to come up with proof that it was
successful. We are running Advanced Reporter but don’t keep logs
that old. Obviously we do not run any other third party reporting
application such as Aptare but may be in the market in the future. I have
been going through the manual but have yet to come up with how to get that info
from NetBackup or if it is even available at this time. Any help will be
appreciated.
thanks
Wayne BeDour
IT Unix System Administrator
PH: 313-240-3374 FAX: 313-240-3065
Internet: wbedour AT lear DOT com
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