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Re: [Veritas-bu] Amount of data
2007-09-20 11:16:46
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Thanks
everyone for all the valuable suggestions -- I found the below command which was
what exactly I was looking for -
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist -l -d 08/19/07 -e 09/19/07
| grep FRAG | awk ' { tot+=3D$4 } END { printf "%d\n",tot }'
Thanks
Again,
Smitha
>Don’t
completely dismiss or accept a product just based on what others have said –
test it yourself.
One
reason to test yourself is that the products are constantly changing (and
hopefully improving). When I did my head-to-head testing, it was
over 3 years ago. Although one product won handily at the time, that
doesn’t mean that it still will – there’s no way for me to know how well it will
work in my environment without doing the tests again and I have no reason to do
so.
When
you evaluate the products, you should also look at the vendor’s relationship
with Symantec and how fast each responds to new releases. In fact, now
would be a good time to ask whether they support NetBackup 6.5 or not, even if
you’re not at 6.5 yet. You want to be assured that they’ll support the new
releases before you’re ready to upgrade to them.
Some
products take different approaches than others so they’ll work better in some
environments than others. Make sure that the product you buy is the right
fit for you and not necessarily for somebody else.
…/Ed
--
Ed
Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
I
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From: Curtis Preston
[mailto:cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
11:19 PM
To: Ed Wilts; Pillapalem, Smitha;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Amount of
data
The
first thing I would say is to use bpimagelist with the appropriate flags.
It goes as far back as you have images, and can be told to list particular
types of backups. One of the fields is size.
I agree
that if you want historical reporting, it’s easiest if you get a commercial
reporting product. There are a number of such products on the market, and
they offer some really good functionality that’s really hard to get otherwise.
The following is a listing of them, alphabetical by product name. (I
keep a directory of them and a bunch of other backup-related products at http://www.backupcentral.com/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Category:Backup_Software_Directories
.)
www.tek-tools.com
(BackupProfiler)
www.agite.com (Backup
Visual)
www.bocada.com
(Bocada)
www.servergraph.com
(Servergraph)
www.aptare.com
(Storage
Console)
www.symantec.com (The new Veritas Backup
Reporter, not to be confused with NOM.)
www.wysdm.com (WysDM for Backups, also resold
by EMC)
I would
suggest that you decide what you want out of a reporting product first, then
take a look at all of these to see which one best fit your needs. Feel
free to search the Backup Central forums ( http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2
) for these product names to see what others have said over time. Take all
comments with a grain of salt; however, there are a few shills out there.
Don’t completely dismiss or accept a product just based on what others have said
– test it yourself.
---
W. Curtis
Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data
Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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Wilts
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:46 PM
To:
'Pillapalem, Smitha'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re:
[Veritas-bu] Amount of data
If
you want history for the last few days, it’s not that tough. If you want
long-term history, you’ll need a reporting product. NOM is free although
limited. Commercial products like Aptare’s StorageConsole are far more
featured and can give you relatively instant reports over long periods – just
today I was generating weekly totals for the last year and the reports were
popping up in seconds and we run a lot of backup jobs every
day.
…/Ed
--
Ed
Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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Pillapalem, Smitha
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:18
PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject:
[Veritas-bu] Amount of data
How do I
get the information on amount of data getting backed up in my current
environment for both weekly fulls and daily incremental
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