Happy New Year!!pardon the subject can't help it ;-) i have several year end backup policies that have finished and am looking for how to find all the media it uses. i tried the catalog but i can't change the policy type to SQLServer. it is greyed out at MS-Windows.how to find all the media used by a particular backup policy?

Ok, the backup image is on a form of disk media ID: @aaaan, with one copy (so far) and is currently in "STL_Completed" state "2" which means "IN PROCESS", see: DOCUMENTATION: What are the different fields in "bpimagelist -l" output?http://www.veritas.com/docs/000032604 So, your SLP has not yet finished the duplication to tape.

dc02 and dc03 are listed in activity monitor, and dc01 is not. Looks like a backup of dc01 did not run. What does this show: # ./bperror -all -d 12/31/2016 00:00:00 -e 01/02/2017 23:59:59 -client dc01 -U

From the bperror log we see two backups start, one for each policy: Monthly_Windows_Domain_Controller Yearly_DC ...and we see two image IDs for: dc03_1483138838 dc03_1483138839 ...but from bperror we cannot determine which image ID is for which policy. Later on we see this image end ok: dc03_1483282848 ...but it looks to be for policy: Daily_DC Seems like you have (had) client dc03 in at least three policies. We're not going to be able to determine an image name from the above. . Let's try this: # ./bpdbjobs -jobid 515406 -all_columns

Yes - I think so, because you are asking bpimagelist to list images on tape media when using the "-media" switch. Also, I seem to remember some NetBackup CLI commands defaulting to using the current time when only a date is specified on a date+time option on a command... so... to avoid this, I would normally always specifiy a date+time and never just a date on its own, e.g. your example of: ./bpimagelist -media -U -d 12/31/2016 -e 1/1/2017 -client dc03 -policy Yearly_DC -pt MS-Windows ...I would actually specify this: ./bpimagelist -media -U -d 12/31/2016 00:00:00 -e 1/1/2017 23:59:59 -client dc03 -policy Yearly_DC -pt MS-Windows ...but this shouldn't affect the listing in this particular instance... and so the only reason I mention the time element of a date+time option is to perhaps steer you to always specifying date+time whenever you use any date(+time) options on NetBackup CLI commands. . Plus I seem to remember that plain regular calls to bpimagelist will not list "STL incomplete" images, because the backup images are not really available for administrators to manipulate until all of the SLP stages have ben completed - and so maybe, we only managed to list the backup image because we specified exactly the specific backup image ID using a "-backupid imagename"... but I would have to do some testing to confirm either way.

The images are still on your disk, and hence you see the output no entity found.2 things you can try to identify if the images got duplicated to tape or not.1) from SLP:use command nbstlutil list to identify if all the images from your SLP are duplicated.you can explore more within SLP w.r.t the SLP name etc using below commondsnbstlutil listnbstlutil list –lifecycle <name>nbstlutil list –backupid <id_value>nbstlutil list -image_state <value>nbstlutil list -copy_state <value>nbstlutil list -frag_state <value>nbstlutil list –mediaid <media_id>_–state 3more details on SLP can be found herehttps://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.0001095012) From catalogon your activity monitor, go to catalog tab and search for backup images for client (dc03) with the date parameters, by default it list the images for primary copy, check the media id and copy number details from the output. if the media ids are something like @aaaan then these are your disk images and primary.Now, on top right in the same window you should be able to change copy number and run a search again, seearch for diffrent copy then the one listed above (if copy 1 was primary per previous output then search copy 2).this is the same serach results as you get in bpimagelist.if this search result is empty too then you dont have to worry your images still needs to be duplciated to tape... sit tight and have cup of cofee :) .If above search results shows the media id details your are looking for then you should also be able to see the same from bpimagelist.and Happy new year to you too!!!!!Cheers,Venki

Desperately Seeking Susan.. or the yearly media

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Marianne

Level 6

8 years ago

bpimagelist is once again your friend.

bpimagelist -media -U [-d date] [-e date] [-client client_name] [-policy policy_name] [-pt policy_type]

manatee

Level 6

8 years ago

i keep getting "no entity was found" so i tried different variations of the command:

[root@master admincmd]# ./bpimagelist -media -U -policy Yearly_DC
no entity was found
[root@master admincmd]# ./bpimagelist -media -U -policy Yearly_DC -pt MS-Windows
no entity was found
[root@master admincmd]# ./bpimagelist -media -U -d 12/31/2016 -e 1/1/2017 -client dc01 -policy Yearly_DC -pt MS-Windows
no entity was found
[root@master admincmd]# ./bpimagelist -media -U -tape -d 12/31/2016 -e 1/1/2017 -client dc01 -policy Yearly_DC -pt MS-Windows
no entity was found
[root@master admincmd]# ./bpimagelist -media -U -d 12/31/2016 16:00:00 -e 1/1/2017 23:59:00 -client dc01 -policy Yearly_DC -pt MS-Windows
no entity was found
[root@master admincmd]# ./bpimagelist -media -U
no entity was found
[root@master admincmd]# ./bpimagelist -U -stl_incomplete -policy Yearly_DC
no entity was found
[root@master admincmd]# ./bpimagelist -media -U -d 12/31/2016 16:00:00 -e 01/01/2017 23:59:59 -client dc01 -policy Yearly_DC -pt MS-Windows
no entity was found
[root@master admincmd]# ./bpimagelist -media -U -d 12/31/2016 00:00:00 -e 01/01/2017 23:59:59 -client dc01 -policy Yearly_DC -pt MS-Windows
no entity was found

and still same errors. i double checked in the activity monitor regarding that backup policy and there is a backup done on the day of Dec 31st 2016.

Marianne
Level 6
8 years ago
Can you show us what you see in Activity Monitor?
Screenshot or .txt output.

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