Hi! Does anyone know what changes where brought to bplist.exe in the 6.5.4 version? I can't find any documentet anywhere, but yet the output of the command in 6.5.4 and 6.5.4 is different. Output in 6.5.3: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist.exe -b -l -R 1 / drwx------ root root 0 Jan 12 22:39 D:\ drwx------ root root 0 Jan 12 22:39 C:\ drwx------ root root 0 Jan 12 22:39 System State:\ drwx------ root root 0 Jan 12 22:39 Shadow Copy Components:\ Output in 6.5.4: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist.exe -b -l -R 1 / drwx------ root root 0 Jan 12 3 D:\ drwx------ root root 0 Jan 12 3 C:\ drwx------ root root 0 Jan 12 14 System State:\ drwx------ root root 0 Jan 12 24 Shadow Copy Components:\ As you can see, the time has been replaced by a number, and I can't find any documentation on what it represents. Is there any parameters to get the time of backup in 6.5.4 with bplist? -- Ketil

I recommend opening a support case and seeing if there's an open Etrack for that issue - if there isn't, there probably should be :) (You'll be delighted to know this behaviour appears to have carried over into 7.0 as well.....)

Changes in bplist.exe from version 6.5.3 to version 6.5.4

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Marianne
Level 6
16 years ago
Possible bug on NBU for Windows?

It's working fine on my Solaris Master server with 6.5.4:

# bplist -C mariannelt -t 13 -l -R 1 /
drwx------ root root 0 Jan 08 10:24 /D/

# cat /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version
NetBackup-Solaris10 6.5.4
Andy_Welburn
Level 6
16 years ago
ditto, etc as per Marianne!

# bplist -C winclient -t 13 -l -R 1 /C
drwx------ root root 0 Jan 12 19:30 /C/

# cat /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/version
NetBackup-Solaris9 6.5.4

***EDIT***
But, if I run from my desktop (again 6.5.4) using the exact same command I get numbers instead of dates:

drwx------ root root 0 Jan 12 3 C:\

So as Marianne suggests, a Windows NB bug?
lu
Level 6
16 years ago
The new number, seems to represent the number of characters in the following path.
Andy_Welburn
Level 6
16 years ago
Very observant!!
Marianne
Level 6
16 years ago
Excellent observation lu!!
Ketil, I suggest you post your problem under Ideas, saying that you need the TIME, NOT amount of characters in path... Obviously some Windows developer had a brain f... !
The next thing to do is to upgrade to 6.5.5 and see if the problem stil exists.
mysteq
Level 2
16 years ago
Problem still exists on 6.5.5.
C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -b -l -R 1 /
drwx------ root root 0 Jan 13 3 D:\
drwx------ root root 0 Jan 13 3 C:\

HARDWARE Windows x64
VERSION NetBackup 6.5.5
RELEASEDATE Thu Nov 5 16:48:42 CST 2009
BUILDNUMBER 20091105
Marianne
Level 6
16 years ago
Have you added a request for enhancement under Ideas yet? We will all vote for you!
mysteq
Level 2
16 years ago
It has been added :)
CRZ
Level 6
16 years ago
I recommend opening a support case and seeing if there's an open Etrack for that issue - if there isn't, there probably should be :)

(You'll be delighted to know this behaviour appears to have carried over into 7.0 as well.....)
suraya
Level 4
16 years ago
Hi, im kinda new to this so can anyoen tell me if this cmd is correct?

D:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bplist.exe -E -C qpidxprod -k BMR-Test-Backup -t 13 -X -s 0 -X -e 1270802628 -I "/System_State/Registry/system"

I got the above command from the vxlogview and got this error: EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found.

Thanks.