Tim> In regard to: Re: [Networker] Backup times in mminfo, John Stoffel said 
(at...:
Stan> I am trying to write a perl script that generates a customized
Stan> report. One of the things I need to include in this report is
Stan> the start time and end time for each save set.
>> 
>> Legato doesn't seem to record this usefull information in any
>> meaningful way, except if you can try to parse the raw log files sent
>> to /var/adm/messages (Solaris in my case).

Tim> As others have pointed out, that's not correct.  Even at 5.x,
Tim> this information was stored down to the second in the media
Tim> database, it's just that mminfo isn't obvious about reporting it.

Tim> Many of the fields that mminfo outputs can have a "width control"
Tim> added in the report field, it's just not obvious from the man
Tim> page that using the width control on the time fields gets you
Tim> more information.  It does, though.

Thanks for the information, this is really helpful.  Now we can
actually generate better reports without having to parse the savegroup
completion messages quite as much.

John

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