Ryan,

I'm starting to use it. I have been able to get my users to put the files they 
want to archive into directory trees of the form

DIR/username/FILES......

and so I've written a little shell script that calls bparchive with a file 
list for each user, and then sends them email when its done with the list of 
files archived.  Eventually I want to be able to create a nicer interface that 
is web-based, does archiving and retrieval, and has the ability to store 
metadata for each file or group of files archived.  I haven't found a good way 
to do it however.

Essentially, I'd like to:

- Allow many more retention levels than NB currently does
- Allow me to automatically refresh old media on a schedule to make sure my 
tapes are still readable, etc.

- Have a cleaner mechanism for colocating images of the same retention period 
onto the same media when I need to force things with a "bpexpdate" command.
- A web interface
- a mechanism for storing metadata that is more than the "KEYWORD" currently 
allows.

If I do write something to do the above, I'll see about releasing it here.

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"RYAN C. ANDERSON" said:

>Has anyone implimented NetBackup's archiving functionality
>successfully?  I would really like to use it, and understand that it is
>the same as a regular full backup, except that it deletes the data when
>its done.  
>
>Some questions in particular are: Have you found a good way to catalog
>what has been archived for users to see?  Are the keywords a good way to
>find what has been backed up?  How do you let users see what has been
>archived? Are users generally okay with seeing their old data go away? 
>What tips do you have for figuring out what can be archived?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ryan
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