When I want a list of just the media (tapes) used for a specific backup
in UNIX:

bpimmedia -policy <POLICY> -d <STARTTIME> -e <ENDTIME> | awk '{print
$9}' | grep ^<TAPE PREFIX> | sort -u

Where:
POLICY = The policy/class of the backup

STARTTIME = MM/DD/CCYY hh:mm:ss - for when the backup was started

STARTTIME = MM/DD/CCYY hh:mm:ss - for when the backup was ended (or
before next one started)

TAPE PREFIX = Whatever you use for naming your tapes - Here we have
SU0001 etc... - this helps to only get the tapes you're interested in.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of A Darren
Dunham
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:53 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Which media were used for a backup?

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:15:06PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Is there an easy way to get a report showing which media
> were used for a certain backup? Preferably in the Java GUI
> of NetBackup 6.0MP4 on Solaris?

Looks like "images on Media" give you most of what you want.  But then
I'd rather use the CLI.

> What I'd like to have, is a table showing
> 
>       Date    Policy  Schedule        Client  Media
> 
> Or something like this :)

"Images on Media" has all of that.... *except* for date (which seems an
odd one to leave out).  You can however calculate the date of the
original backup from the backup ID.

> Can I find this in the Java Admin GUI? If so, where?

Have you looked at all the "reports" that are available?

> Or would I have to script that?

Scripting may give you better output and make it more easily repetable.


The biggie for this task is 'bpimagelist'.  You give it criteria to
match, it gives you a list of images, including the tapes those images
are on.

> Why would I need that? I'd like to see which media
> have been used by a certain backup job, so that I
> can determine, which tapes should be moved from the
> library to offsite-storage.

This is also a feature of "vault".  Of course you can replicate the
features of vault yourself with scripting other existing tools, but the
time it takes to do that may be more than the cost of running vault in
some environments.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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