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Rama_Singh
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12 years ago
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Command to list Drive name and current running backup

Is any command in netbackup which give me drive name (If multiple Tap library is configured) with current runing backup and all queued client for backup ?

7.1.x and Earlier
Backup and Recovery
NetBackup
UNIX
  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    12 years ago

    The problem is that to get the detail you want you need to dump the bpdbjobs file and then either grep it or use vbs to analyse it and then pipe out the results.

    That could take a considerable amount of time which would actually make your results when they finally get to the dashboard rather behind time. How quickly are you looking for this to update?

    Nagalla suggested the nbrbutil command and i would like to expand on that to make it much easier...

    nbrbutil -listActiveDriveJobs HP.ULTRIUM4-SCSI.00

    (is that really your drive name? I expected HP.ULTRIUM4-SCSI.000)

    will pipe out a quick nice report on what your tape drive is doing including the job id, whether backup or restore and the tape pool in use.

    It should be quick to grab your other details (client etc) from the job id

    And just repeat the command against each drive you have.

    There should be very little processing time involved with this to keep your dashboard up to date.

    Hope this helps

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  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    Moderator
    12 years ago

    vmoprcmd is the command to list the drives

    activity moniter in GUI or bpdbjobs command is the one which will list the queued jobs.

  • Rama_Singh's avatar
    Rama_Singh
    Level 3
    12 years ago

    Thanks for your response.

    But i want to know current running backup in which drive using command...

  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    Moderator
    12 years ago

    nbrbutil -dump | grep <jobid> 

    will give you the Drive name for current running jobs.

  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    Why not just look in the details in the details tab for the running job in activity monitor - much easier ...

    I donlt know of any command that gives the exact output you require, unless one of the reports in OpsCenter can do it, or a customer report created in OpsCenter.

  • Rama_Singh's avatar
    Rama_Singh
    Level 3
    12 years ago

    Thanks this is helpfull...

    Can you just tell me how can i grep only job ID and Drive name.

  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    Moderator
    12 years ago
    below is the command and output that i got in my system for duplication job... now sure if its help you or not
     
    you probably needs to chage the Print value for backup job, i have not testes that...
     
    root# nbrbutil -dump | grep 309038 | grep "DriveName" | awk '{print$10,$18}'
    firstuserid="jobid=309038" DriveName=
    firstuserid="jobid=309038" DriveName=Drive1
     
    besides, may i know why you are looking for this.. what is your actual requirement?
  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    Well you don't know the drivename, so run:

    nbrbutil -dump | grep "jobid=111"

    In the example above I have used 111 as the jobid. You then need to find the drive name yourself. If you use the same drive names, for example DRV00001, DRV00002 etc then you can run:

    nbrbutil -dump | grep "jobid=111" | grep DRV

    this will show ONLY lines where both jobid=111 and DRV are on the same line.

     

     

  • Rama_Singh's avatar
    Rama_Singh
    Level 3
    12 years ago

    Hi Nagalla,

    I'm writing a script and expecting drive name and client name for current running backup in output without giving any explicit input while running command. In above every time i have to give jobid explicitly. Pease give some command to achive my goal without giving any explicit input.

  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    Moderator
    12 years ago

    but i still do not understand your requirement is...

    if you let us know what you are trying to achieve with this, may be we could give you more appropriate solution or suggest for that..

  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    Why do you want to know the tape drive based on the client backup? There is no command to do that.