Sweet Lion of Zion!  That is fast!  Thanks so much.
Have you re-written the Vault DR report script?  That
thing takes 50 minutes in our env.

--
Dan

dale AT daleking DOT org wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> The available_media script in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies is a dog
> 
> for sites with a large number of tapes.
> I've rewritten this script in perl for performance and was wondering if
> anyone who uses the veritas version would like to test it.
> 
> On our system ~1400 carts the veritas version takes ~55 minutes.  This
> version takes ~12 seconds and emulates the output, including the -summary
> option.
> 
> Things to note:
>       - added -size option to display data sizes in Ki/Mi/Gi
>       - added -pool= to only show a specific pool name
>       - added WARNING lines if multiple mediaids are found in the MM
>         (remove or filter these lines if you depend on the output
>         format)
>       - my perl is weak - please submit improvements after which I'll
>         make it generally available somewhere else
>       - only tested with nbu 4.5 under AIX
>       - don't forget to update the script with the location of perl
>         on your system 
> 
> I hope someone finds this useful.
> 
> - Dale
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # available_media script based on Veritas' goodies script.
> # Dale King 20041108
> # Tested with NBU 4.5 FP3 under AIX.