[Veritas-bu] Backup List

If you have a maintenance contract, you can get a fresh bpcoverage from
support.  I got one for Solaris Master.  Works great.

You can always use "bpgp" to get /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version. 




Bobby Williams
2205 Peterson Drive
Chattanooga, Tennessee  37421
423-296-8200

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 2:08 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup List

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:53:50PM -0600, David Rock wrote:
> * William <weiduo.deng AT gmail DOT com> [2006-01-29 11:40]:
> > On 1/28/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 12:24:45PM -0500, William wrote:
> > > > I am writing a report for both TSM and NBU. I can get the report 
> > > > as
> > > below
> > > > easily with SQL in TSM,but don't have a clue in NBU. Can anybody 
> > > > shed
> > > some
> > > > light? Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Server_NAME PLATFORM_NAME CLIENT_VERSION FILESPACE_NAME 
> > > > BACKUP_START
> > > BACKUP_END
> > >
> > > There really isn't a good way of getting this information, 
> > > especially historically.  Many of us have purchased Aptare's 
> > > StorageConsole to get this type of information.
> > >
> > > Getting a client version in NetBackup is *hard*.  Veritas really, 
> > > really screwed up this and there is no consistent easy way of 
> > > getting the version for all clients.
> > >
> > >        .../Ed
> > > --
> > > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> > > mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
> > >
> > 
> > Thanks Ed. Seems like I can get a client version from GUI. However, 
> > how can I get a directoreies/filesystems backup start/end timestamp? 
> > which is not historical, just the latest one.
> 
> Part of what Ed is talking about is that NetBackup is unreliable when 
> telling you what the client version is.  The GUI is especially bad at 
> giving an accurate report of the client version.  Generally, the best 
> you will get that you can depend on is the last major release version 
> (e.g. You installed 4.5FP6 and patched to 4.5FP8, the GUI would 
> probably report 4.5FP6).  bpcoverage tends to be more accurate, but 
> still not perfect.

Symantec broke bpcoverage in the latest service paks for 6.0, 5.1, and
finally 5.0.  bpcoverage is also totally useless for reporting the versions
of Windows clients.

        .../Ed

--
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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