It would be a meaningless audit question to ask you to confirm a backup that had expired ever actually existed.   Are they asking about something you do with one year or infinite retention?  If not then it is proper to say “we don’t retain the backups that long so there is no reason to retrain records of the backup that long”.   Retention policy is dictated by legal requirements not auditor wishes.   If you had a need for the backup it wouldn’t matter how many records you had that you’d done it if the backup itself no longer existed.

You might try using bpflist once you get the image name if you want to see a list of the files that were backed up.

Wayne:

If the retention period is longer than 6 months, you can get this information from the bpimagelist command.  Proof that an image exists is proof of a successful backup.  If the retention period is less than 6 months and you do not have a reporting product or are keeping logs some other way, then I am afraid you are out of luck.

Best regards,

Peter Buschman

At 21:57 2.7.2007, BeDour, Wayne wrote:

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Our environment is HP-UX 11.11, Netbackup 5.1 MP3 backing up mostly HP unix with some Sun and Windows backups.  It’s audit time again and the auditors are asking for validation that a backup ran 6 months ago.  They give me the date and machine / policy and want me to come up with proof that it was successful.  We are running Advanced Reporter but don’t keep logs that old.  Obviously we do not run any other third party reporting application such as Aptare but may be in the market in the future.  I have been going through the manual but have yet to come up with how to get that info from NetBackup or if it is even available at this time.  Any help will be appreciated.
thanks
 
Wayne BeDour
IT Unix System Administrator
PH: 313-240-3374  FAX: 313-240-3065
Internet:  wbedour AT lear DOT com
 
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