In Valen's name? Does that mean it's Valen's time day?
It looks like you're running two contests, one for the best one-line
NetWorker command and one for the most outrageous Dumb User story.
Anyway, my favorite one-liner produces a .csv file listing all tapes
written between mm/dd/yy and MM/DD/YY:
mminfo -a -r "volume,client,savetime" -q "savetime >= mm/dd/yy, savetime
<= MM/DD/YY" | tr -s ' ' | tr ' ' ',' | sort -u | sed
's!^!'`hostname`,'!' > tapes.csv
My favorite Dumb User story (and a cautionary tale against giving DBAs
the root password):
A newly-minted DBA was tasked with upgrading Oracle on a Solaris box. So
the DBA did what he had been trained to do to remove all remnants of the
old version:
cd bin
rm -rf *
This works if you're logged in as the user oracle. You end up wiping out
{ORACLEHOME}/bin, which -- in this environment at least -- is where the
Oracle binaries are kept.
Unfortunately, he was logged in as root at the time. What he did was
wipe out /bin. This is generally considered poor form on a Solaris box.
The DBA left the company (voluntarily) shortly after that incident. When
he left, of course, we had to change the root password. In his honor we
changed it to "rm-rfstar".
I'll be sitting by my mailbox waiting for my prize :^)
Conrad Macina
Pfizer, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eddie Albert [mailto:EAlbert AT EARTHLINK DOT NET]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:22 PM
Subject: One command line contest?
Like to have a contest for the most useful single command line for
networker.
Single command line = after you hit the first ENTER key.
Most useful = usable by the most organizations
So break out your codemonkey books and show your stuff.
Oh right, we must have a prize. What can we give as a prize. Hmm, give
me a
couple days to come up with something cool. Since I am helping come up
with
the prize I hope it is useful for me as well.
We are a financial institution.
We backup PBytes a day.
We are average.
We have LTO3 drives in an SL8500 (ok not so KISimpleS)
We interface with ACSLS
Do you have a utility that synchs up ACSLS w/Networker?
Man I would love to hit a command line or click on an icon that does
that.
Maybe you have a script that punishes an abusive user <woo-hoo>.
Oh codemonkey solution must come with your best DBAs or SAs are so
stupid,
did I tell you the time that ???? You fill in the blanks.
I'll start with a basic example.
DBAs are so stupid, this one time in band camp. ok that's not it.. Today
we
received a request from DBA3, to setup an rman on DB1 on Sun @ 7pm. Yeah
so
what. big deal right? Well we received 3 tickets for the same server to
backup the same DB at 3 different times on 2 different days!
HELLO do you talk to your team?
So um, tell me YOUR story!
So saith the Networker Ninja, so saith your Jedi Networker Master. (ok
most
days I still think I am a padawan!)
So let me go find an uber cool display prize you guys get to work.. Show
me
do you have THE RIGHT STUFF!???
In Valen's name! /ALE
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