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Re: [Veritas-bu] question about bplist

2008-07-21 11:54:15
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] question about bplist
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: rascal <rascal1981 AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:25:55 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, rascal wrote:

> 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?

You should use -R 99999 (5 or 6, 9's) to get the (all) the file listings 
per each client.

Justin.
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