Thanks Jeff,

 

We used to have a similar cron job which would dump all non 0 status messages into a file which printed every morning.  It was more for SOX compliance than anything else.  Now we just file all of our non 0 backup emails in an archive folder after we’ve gone through any errors from the previous night.  As I mentioned in my earlier reply, the email notifications are flaky to say the least and just last night, we stopped getting emails regarding the catalogs again.  We receive catalog emails even if the catalog runs successfully and we use that as a pretty good check that NBU is running OK.  I checked this morning and all emails reporting successful backups have been received as normal but catalog backup confirmations stopped dead at just after 6pm.  A quick check of the admin console this morning confirms that everything ran (including the catalogs) but no emails !!

 

 

 

The daily backup status report is one we generate at 9 AM ever day via a cron entry.

00 9  * * * /root/scripts/status.sh

 

The script the cron job runs is:

#!/bin/sh

# Shell to generate BR status report and mail to admins

 

echo "Subject: Atubks01 Backup Status Report" > /tmp/status

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bperror -U -backstat -s info >> /tmp/status

/usr/bin/mail user1 AT ourdomain DOT com,user2 AT ourdoamin DOT com < /tmp/status

 

^^^END OF SCRIPT^^^

 

Of course you can add as many recipients at you want and I’ve obfuscated our real ones to prevent spam.   This is running on HP-UX 11.11 (a/k/a 11i v1)

 

The report we get gives us the exit status of all the jobs run in the last 24 hours both 0 and non-zero exit status.  Its good for a quick glance in the morning to see if anything has gone horribly wrong.

 

The individual emails are better for seeing things pop up throughout the day.

 

Jeff,

 

We’ve seen some strange stuff going on with our email notifications too.  For about 3 days we didn’t get any catalog notifications and then all of a sudden they started up again.  As far as we know we are getting all the non 0 failure notifications too.  Luckily we don’t have a huge backup environment so it’s easy to check that the failures in the admin console match with the emails we receive and vice versa.

 

I’m interested to know what you mean by the daily full status report ?  Is this something new in 6.5 that shows an overall picture of the previous nights backups ?  How do you activate that feature ?