Elapsed time script?

Sorry to say there isn't a NetBackup command that will do what you want without you knowing some scripting.

Something like `bpimagelist -l | grep IMAGE | {insert quit a bit of awk/sprintf magic here}` would probably get you to your ultimate goal.

This TechNote can help you sift through the fields, at least:

DOCUMENTATION: What are the different fields in "bpimagelist -l" output?

 http://support.veritas.com/docs/193085

Quickly scanning through that TechNote, I *believe* the field numbers in the IMAGE line(s) making up your `bpimagelist -U` output are 14, 16, 20, 19, 17, 12, and 7 respectively (with a lot of manipulation to convert numbers into meaningful dates/times/text).  You'll want to add field 15 to that.

The smiley you after the word "IMAGE" should actually be a closed round bracket.

You need copy the script into a file and run it with execute permissions.

James, I find making repeated calls to bpdbm to convert a ctime into human readable a bit slow.  Also, bpdbm only exists on a master, and not on any flavour of media servers or Windows admin consoles.  And I don't think bpdbm will convert a datetime into a ctime.

Here's some pointers for managing times in Solaris, not sure if they work on all Unix:

$ # current time in norm format$ perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); print strftime "%a %e %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Y \n", localtime ; 'Mon 12 Mar 2007 11:00:41 2007 $ # current time in ctime$ perl -e 'print time ; print "\n"'                                                          1173697268$ # above ctime in normal format $ perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); print strftime "%a %e %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Y \n", localtime(1173697268) ; 'Mon 12 Mar 2007 11:01:08 2007$ perl -e 'use POSIX qw(mktime) ; print mktime ( 0, 30, 10, 12, 11, 95); print "\n" ;'818764200$ perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); print strftime "%a %e %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Y \n", localtime(818764200) ; ' Tue 12 Dec 1995 10:30:00 1995 $ perl -e 'use POSIX qw(mktime) ; print mktime ( 0, 30, 10, 12, 11, 95, 0, 0, 1); print "\n" ;'         818760600$ perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); print strftime "%a %e %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Y \n", localtime(818760600) ; 'Tue 12 Dec 1995 09:30:00 1995 mktime variables:     int  tm_sec;     /* seconds after the minute [0, 61]  */     int  tm_min;     /* minutes after the hour [0, 59] */     int  tm_hour;    /* hour since midnight [0, 23] */     int  tm_mday;    /* day of the month [1, 31] */     int  tm_mon;     /* months since January [0, 11] */     int  tm_year;    /* years since 1900 */     int  tm_wday;    /* days since Sunday [0, 6] */     int  tm_yday;    /* days since January 1 [0, 365] */     int  tm_isdst;   /* flag for daylight savings time */

I can supply some VBScript functions too, to convert to/from ctime/datetime.

Mark Lin posted a perl script that does this type of thing back in 2003 - you may be able to search and find it...

I can paste it here of you need it.