Aptare also has a built in report that shows you all hosts in your
environment that have had multiple successive backup failures.

Would be had to miss a red "this server has not backed up for the last
10 days" warning.

.......Whether the server is down, or just not backing up for another
reason.

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf 
> Of Ed Wilts
> Sent: July 19, 2007 8:29 PM
> To: 'Brandon Zermeno'; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] retentions
> 
> 
> Aptare StorageConsole absolutely does this.  Bring up a 
> Mission Control
> report and it will quickly when the last successful backups 
> was (a blue dot)
> vs a warning (a yellow dot) vs a failure (red dot).  You will 
> get this per
> file system.  The default home page for StorageConsole shows you all
> failures in the last 48 (I think) hours.  With 
> StorageConsole, there's no
> excuse for you not to know about your successes/failures.
> 
> What we have actually done here is to push the failures back on to the
> server admins.  *EVERY* day that a backup fails, they get a 
> ticket generated
> by our Help Desk that they have to do something with.  So 
> your job is to
> make sure that NetBackup attempts the job every day and every 
> day it fails,
> you notify the admin.  If the admin chooses to ignore the 
> ticket, then the
> ticket needs to be automatically escalated to the group 
> manager.  If the
> server is down for more than 2 weeks and they've had 14 help 
> desk tickets
> generated and ignored them all, it's not exactly your fault 
> that the data is
> not recoverable.
> 
> On top of this, we generate an "overdue" report every day.  
> It's not 100%
> accurate (it is really, really hard to duplicate the scheduler's
> calculations!), but it gives us a good idea as to what's 
> going on.  If we
> see that a full backup is overdue for too long, we investigate.
> 
> I have worked with other backup products that do solve your problems
> differently by utilizing a user-defined number of 
> generations.  Rather than
> expiring images by date, they expire by the number of 
> generations so you
> would always have, for example, 2 generations to restore 
> from.  You could be
> down for 5 years and still have 2 copies of your weeklies.  There are
> downsides to that approach, too, of course - no method is without its
> drawbacks.
> 
>       .../Ed
> --
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