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Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 8:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Generate list of file systems in a Policy[...]

Thanks Bob, good info.

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is not a solution for me because these are Policies that only backup a few specific file systems. 

You are correct that 'bplist' can only tell me what I've backed up int the past, not what I am about to backup.  But I've decided that this is good enough.  A 'bplist -C $CLNT -k $POLI' will give me a list of directories to look at.  If a new file system is added, I will not know about it until after it's backed up once, but that is acceptable.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:46 PM, bob944 <bob944 AT attglobal DOT net> wrote:

> On the client, I have a need to generate a list of file
> systems to be backed up by a particular Policy.  There
> does not seem to be a way to do this from the client.
> Anyone know better?

It's not clear to me what you want.  If Ed Wilts'
interpretation--run some command on a client that gives the
selection list of a policy--his answer is all you need:  the
question makes no sense in NetBackup.

If the client is a media server (or one on which you've installed
the Windows Admin Client, which is effectively a full media server
installation), you have the tools and permissions to do commands
like bppllist to find your answer.  Just *why* you'd want to do
this, I don't know.

Still working from the client end, there is a ton of info in:
o  the client job tracker probably tells the client something (I've
never used it) that is being backed up in realtime
o  the BAR GUI tells the client everything that has been backed up,
how and when--but not by policy
o  the ~/veritas/netbackup/logs directory has the VxUL logs by
default and the bpbkar log if you create the directory; I'm not used
to looking in VxUL logs, but the bpbkar log has the policy
information as well as everything that got backed up
o  bpbkar logs also have the selection list (the log entries that
determine what FS/volume a selection occupies and the CreateSnapshot
entries (client-dependent, I'm sure)
o  bplist
o  all the above, obviously, tell you what has happened, not what
will happen in the future
o  client-notification email
o  bpstart scripts

And the way I first read your question, something like "how do I
make sure I back up all the filesystems on a client without knowing
what they are in advance," the answer is you put ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES in
the policy's selection list.