So while I sit here going over why our backups have jumped from 2gb to 2tb (not exaggerating either lol) I thought I might use some creative bpimagelist work to generate a per day tape consumption. That worked well, but what about what policies are consuming that data? No problem, back to bpimagelist for more good information. But still, I am not able to narrow down precisously where the issue is. So I thought, what about using bplist? An evil tool to be sure, which is why I come to you humble masters of Netbackup.
I have constructed what I thought would be a good command but I am running into an error. Here is my command:
bplist -C clientname -S svrname -k policy_name -R -l -s 07/1/2008 00:00:00 -e 07/1/2008 23:59:59 > /$HOME/policy_name_070108
but I get this error
Status 227: Entity not found
Ok, well let's make sure my information is there:
ls -ltr /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images/svrname/
confirmed; dates match with logs
Ok, well how about this, just to make sure we are not insane?
bplist -C clientname -S svrname -R -l -s 07/1/2008 00:00:00 -e 07/1/2008 23:59:59 /path_to_dir_backed_up_by_policy > /$HOME/policy_name_070108
Well that works fine; I get the data I want, except as you can imagine without some scripting this could be a pain and of course, human error and such could come into play.
So my question is, what am I doing wrong or what could I do to get the information I want which is a breakdown of how much is backed with a file listing and the amounts next to the file? Is this the wrong command or is there a better way to go about this?
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Matthew MCP, MCSA, MCTS, OCA
rascal1981 AT gmail DOT comDefine Trouble:
Why did you apply THAT patch??....