Command line backup verification Not show exchange backups only OS.

Have you tried

bpclimagelist -ct 16 -server <master>

I find im my environment unless i give it more information i miss some backups as well.

Try this technote

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO43770

I would imagine that Dougs answer is spot on. You do have to be very careful with the options you do or don't supply. Unfortunately there's no overall consistency in some of the options/defaults

NetBackup has a tendency for certain commands to require the use of certain options, otherwise it defaults to ... well, the default!

e.g. the following is true for bplist:

-t policy_type

          Specifies  one  of  the  following  numbers   that
          corresponds  to  the policy type. The default is 0
          for all clients except Windows, where the  default
          is 13.

          0 = Standard

          4 = Oracle

etc etc etc

whereas for yet another command, bpimagelist, the coding is somewhat different:

-pt policy_type

          Specifies a policy type. By  default,  bpimagelist
          searches  for all policy types. policy_type is one
          of the following character strings:

          o    Informix-On-BAR

          o    MS-Exchange-Server

etc etc etc

I know it's not totally relevant to the point in question (bpclimagelist T/N already covered by Doug), but just a little supporting documentation that follows the same lines:

DOCUMENTATION: A listing of policy types and how they are used with bplist and other VERITAS NetBackup (tm) commands.
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH27299

Doug and Andy Thank you for respond and I am sorry for my late responds.  I was out sick.  

I do the bpclimagelist -ct 16 on the client side but i get nothing back. 

What Status code is seen in Activity Monitor for Exchange Backups?

Getting a status 1 code (error below) for two of the 6 database. I feel that it is something on the exchange side, but since I only care about the NB since I wanted to make sure everything was fine on my end. 

Error bpbrm(pid=3536) from client server: ERR - failure reading file: Microsoft Information Store:\DB02\Database (BEDS 0x0: )

Warning bpbrm(pid=3536) from client server: WRN - Exchange Validation for 'Microsoft Information Store:\DB02\' failed.  Please refer to the backup and application event logs for more details.

Status 1 for a database is a failure.

You need to show Exchange Admins the errors that you have posted above. They need to fix this. 

NBU is merely reporting the errors, not causing it.

Does it matter if the client is 7.0.1  with the know issues with VSS in it?  Do you think upgraded to 7.1.0.2 would help?  Just asking the people that would know best!  

The reason I ask is because the customer changed the VSS setting to unlimited and the backup fished with a status 0 and database last night.  This is the only thing that has changed but I still cannot get a result from bpclimagelist -ct 16 but if i do bpclimagelist -ct 13 i get the OS backups. 

VSS belongs to the OS, not NBU. Windows 2003 in particular has various 'issues' with VSS and hotfixes are released on regular basis. Search Microsoft for VSS hotfixes for your OS version.

NBU updates and patches contain NBU fixes and features only - it does not contain VSS updates.

So, if there is a problem with VSS, you need to look for fixes on Microsoft Support site.

Most people use NBU without making any changes to VSS. As long as there are no VSS bugs, backups normally work without having to change any settings.

Are you able to run bpimagelist on master for Exchange client?

Marinne,  Great info.  I knew that VSS is part of the OS but from some reason your responds makes sense.   

Well when i run this is on one of the two server that are part of the DAG so maybe i need to do this on the active DAG which I haven't tried yet. I will keep you posted.  Thank you for your responds.  

You have now mentioned DAG for the first time.

Can we assume that backup is done using the Virtual name in the policy?

If you do not specify Virtual name with '-client <client_name>' in bpclimagelist command, the local nodename is sent to the Master.