The first thing I would say is to use
bpimagelist with the appropriate flags. It goes as far back as you have
images, and can be told to list particular types of backups. One of the
fields is size.
I agree that if you want historical
reporting, it’s easiest if you get a commercial reporting product. There
are a number of such products on the market, and they offer some really good
functionality that’s really hard to get otherwise. The following is
a listing of them, alphabetical by product name. (I keep a directory of
them and a bunch of other backup-related products at http://www.backupcentral.com/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Category:Backup_Software_Directories
.)
www.tek-tools.com
(BackupProfiler)
www.agite.com
(Backup Visual)
www.bocada.com
(Bocada)
www.servergraph.com (Servergraph)
www.aptare.com (Storage Console)
www.symantec.com
(The new Veritas Backup Reporter, not to be confused with NOM.)
www.wysdm.com
(WysDM for Backups, also resold by EMC)
I would suggest that you decide what you
want out of a reporting product first, then take a look at all of these to see
which one best fit your needs. Feel free to search the Backup Central
forums ( http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2
) for these product names to see what others have said over time. Take all
comments with a grain of salt; however, there are a few shills out there.
Don’t completely dismiss or accept a product just based on what others
have said – test it yourself.
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W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog
@ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data
Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
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If you want history
for the last few days, it’s not that tough. If you want long-term
history, you’ll need a reporting product. NOM is free although
limited. Commercial products like Aptare’s StorageConsole are far
more featured and can give you relatively instant reports over long periods –
just today I was generating weekly totals for the last year and the reports
were popping up in seconds and we run a lot of backup jobs every day.
…/Ed
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How do I get the information on amount of
data getting backed up in my current environment for both weekly fulls and
daily incremental -
