I have a simple perl script that runs every morning
and gets this info for me.  If anyone is interested, I
can remove the parts specific to my setup and post it.

--- Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:30:40AM -0500, James M
> Sherman wrote:
> > 
> > We need to generate reports showing failed and
> successful backups going back
> > almost a year
> > for several hosts in our NetBackup (4.5)
> environment.
> 
> If you haven't been collecting that information, I
> believe it's gone.
>  
> > 'bpdbjobs' data is only saved here for 10 days,
> and I'm not sure what
> > the best method is to get this information...
> 'bplist' is great for
> > showing individual files backed up going back
> forever, but is there a
> > better summary report we can generate that just
> shows all backups
> > completed on a given date for a given box?   How
> about failed backups
> > also?
> 
> bplist isn't that great.  It doesn't tell you if the
> file was open while
> you copied it, or if you got half a backup but had a
> tape failure in
> between.  It doesn't tell you if the backup failed
> but immediately
> retried and was successful.  It won't help you if
> you got most of the
> files in an Oracle database - all you need to do is
> miss one archive log
> and you're not recoverable.
> 
> > Thanks very much, sorry if I'm missing something
> obvious,
> 
> Short answer:  If management wants this level of
> historical detail, they
> need to pay for some tools to allow you to produce
> those reports.
> Aptare's StorageConsole is a great product...  It
> took me about 30
> seconds to generate a report showing all failed
> backups per client -
> what the error code was.  It doesn't have an option
> to ignore retries
> yet - some of the other reports do.
> 
> Adding StorageConsole now won't help you answer the
> question for what
> happened last year.  It *will* help you next year
> when they ask the same
> question again.
> 
> -- 
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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