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Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup?

2007-11-20 15:16:08
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup?
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:03:28 +0000
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 07:12:00PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> >  But then
> > I'd rather use the CLI.
> 
> Not if it can be avoided. If possible, I'd like not to do
> everything by myself - especially not with such a high
> price product as NetBackup...

Unfortunately you're then at the mercy of what the GUI has programmed.
You can't create your own reports in it.

> > "Images on Media" has all of that....
> 
> Well... Yes. But not in an easily digestable way. There's
> IMO *WAY* too much output (for what I'm looking for).
> 
> Anyway, that also seems to be the wrong way to get the
> information, IMO. I'd like to know, which tapes were used
> by a backup. I don't care about which backups are on which
> tape. Yes, it's sort of the same question, but only sort
> of. Suppose you've got a backup which spans multiple tapes;
> with "Images on Media", you have to check all the media to
> figure out, if a certain backup is on them. Wrong way
> around, in my opinion.

So what specifically are your criteria for choosing a backup (backupid?
client and date range?)

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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