Re: [Veritas-bu] Auditors here again, I've got a question....

# bpimagelist -U -d <start> -e <end> -client <client> -media

This will give you the list of all tapes used for that client for that date. Given that, check your vault logs to see when/if the tape was ejected, and get the audit trail from your vault provider to see when/if they received the tapes.

I don't think you have the information as to what the final status of that job was - it could have been a status 0 or 1. To answer the question if "the backups ran" is actually pretty hard - it's quite possible that that the job ran, failed, and re-ran the next day. From an audit perspective, that may be an acceptable outcome. However, if auditing is really important to you, you may also have other evidence that the job failed because it emailed you a failure report.

For long-term answers for questions like this, considering a commercial backup reporting product... For example, with Aptare StorageConsole, I can quickly find that information and see that copy 1 went to DSSU and which tape id copy 2 went to.

.../Ed

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:36 PM, BeDour, Wayne <WBedour AT lear DOT com> wrote:

Our environment, HP-UX 11-31 with a SureStore 20/700 tape library, one master / media server running NetBackup 6.5.2 backing up mainly HP servers with a few Sun and Windows boxes thrown in. One NBU 6.5.2 SSO media server running on windows.

Here is the scenario. The auditors give me a date and a host which I can relate to a backup policy. From the date, they need me to verify the backup ran, the bar code of the tape(s) written to and if the tape(s) went offsite.

Can anyone suggest the best command line commands to accomplish the above?

Thanks in advance…

Wayne BeDour

Unix System Administrator

PH: 313-593-9876

Internet: wbedour AT lear DOT com

.../Ed

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org

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