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Haitham's avatar
Haitham
Level 4
10 years ago

how can we export Netbackup configuration to excel

can we export Netbackup configuration to excel  1- Polices  2- clients 3- San Clients 4-media servers ,...etc    
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  • Andrew_Madsen's avatar
    Andrew_Madsen
    10 years ago

    Some yes some no or at lease some you will be able to work with in Excel. It will be a two step operation.

    1. Click on the high level (e.g. Policies) in the right pane select all
    2. Right click select export

    Note: This works only with the Java Console. It also does not work for client since it puts out a lot of data but it is not in a csv or tab delimited format so importing it into Excel is not doable without a lot of massaging. You will also need to edit the resulting text file but only to remove the extra lines. 

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Hasan_Naqvi
Level 3
9 years ago

I have exported bpimage data to a text file and then imported into an excel sheet but when trying to sort the backup or expiry date in ascending or descending excel sees a large number approx 60% of the data as text rather than date. I have tried all sorts of formatting techniques and some from microsoft tech sites but have had no luck. I am wondering why the netbackup export has two types of formats in the data related to the dates.