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Abhinay077
Level 3
13 years ago
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How to retain the missing logs in activity monitor

Hi,

 

Please let me know how to retain the missing logs in activity monitor..

i have started long run 6 days back.. now i see jobs from 1 to 350 are missing out of 1660 jobs in total.

 

Please do help me

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  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    13 years ago

    in addition that you can look 

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH24317 (for windods)

     

    from Unix admin guide 7.5 page 926:-

     

    About the BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS environment variable
    The BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS environment variable provides a convenient method to
    set job retention options with a script. The bpdbjobs process determines how long
    to retain a job by checking for the BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS environment variable. If
    present, BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS overrides the bp.conf settings.
    The following options can be used to determine the length of time NetBackup
    retains jobs. The options should be entered in lower case in the BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS
    environmental variable.
    Table 21-7 BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS environment variable options
    Option Description
    Use with the -clean option to specify how many hours
    bpdbjobs keeps unsuccessfully completed jobs. Default: 78
    hours.
    To keep both successful and both failed jobs longer than the
    default of 78 hours, keep_successful_hours must be used
    with keep_hours.
    -keep_hours hours
    Use with the -clean option to specify how many hours
    bpdbjobs keeps successfully completed jobs. The number of
    hours must be less than or equal to keep_hours.
    Values outside the range are ignored. Default: 78 hours.
    -keep_successful_hours hours
    Use with the -clean option to specify how many days
    bpdbjobs keeps completed jobs. Default: 3 days.
    -keep_days days
    This value must be less than the -keep_days value.
    Use with the -clean option to specify how many days
    bpdbjobs keeps successfully completed jobs. Default: 3 days.
    -keep_successful_days days
    A script (cleanjobs) was used in the following example. You can copy the script
    directly from this document and changed as needed.
    ■ The first line specifies how long to keep unsuccessful jobs (24 hours) and
    successful jobs (five hours).
    ■ The second line specifies the path to the bpdbjobs command. Indicate the
    correct location of bpdbjobs in the.bat file. In this example, NetBackup was
    installed in the default location:
    ■ setenv BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS "-keep_hours 24 -keep_successful_hours 5 -clean"
    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpdbjobs ${*}
    Monitoring NetBackup activity
    About the jobs database
    926
    You can store the .bat file anywhere, as long as it is run from the appropriate
    directory.
    bpdbjobs command
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Please help us to understand what this statement means?

    i have started long run 6 days back.. 

  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    I don't know what that means either, but I guess he wants to change the number of dayys (or more accurately hours) the jobs history is kept in activity monitor).

    Create a file, eg call settings and put in these lines:

     

    KEEP_JOBS_SUCCESSFUL_HOURS = 156
    KEEP_JOBS_HOURS = 156
     
    Then run
    bpsetconfig -h <master> <filename>
     
    This will change the number of hours the history is kept in activity monitor.  CAnge the 156 to however many hours you want.
     
    Check the settings by running
     
    bpgetconfig 

    (The commands are in netbackup/bin/admincmd directory)

    Martin

  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    Moderator
    13 years ago

    in addition that you can look 

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH24317 (for windods)

     

    from Unix admin guide 7.5 page 926:-

     

    About the BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS environment variable
    The BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS environment variable provides a convenient method to
    set job retention options with a script. The bpdbjobs process determines how long
    to retain a job by checking for the BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS environment variable. If
    present, BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS overrides the bp.conf settings.
    The following options can be used to determine the length of time NetBackup
    retains jobs. The options should be entered in lower case in the BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS
    environmental variable.
    Table 21-7 BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS environment variable options
    Option Description
    Use with the -clean option to specify how many hours
    bpdbjobs keeps unsuccessfully completed jobs. Default: 78
    hours.
    To keep both successful and both failed jobs longer than the
    default of 78 hours, keep_successful_hours must be used
    with keep_hours.
    -keep_hours hours
    Use with the -clean option to specify how many hours
    bpdbjobs keeps successfully completed jobs. The number of
    hours must be less than or equal to keep_hours.
    Values outside the range are ignored. Default: 78 hours.
    -keep_successful_hours hours
    Use with the -clean option to specify how many days
    bpdbjobs keeps completed jobs. Default: 3 days.
    -keep_days days
    This value must be less than the -keep_days value.
    Use with the -clean option to specify how many days
    bpdbjobs keeps successfully completed jobs. Default: 3 days.
    -keep_successful_days days
    A script (cleanjobs) was used in the following example. You can copy the script
    directly from this document and changed as needed.
    ■ The first line specifies how long to keep unsuccessful jobs (24 hours) and
    successful jobs (five hours).
    ■ The second line specifies the path to the bpdbjobs command. Indicate the
    correct location of bpdbjobs in the.bat file. In this example, NetBackup was
    installed in the default location:
    ■ setenv BPDBJOBS_OPTIONS "-keep_hours 24 -keep_successful_hours 5 -clean"
    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpdbjobs ${*}
    Monitoring NetBackup activity
    About the jobs database
    926
    You can store the .bat file anywhere, as long as it is run from the appropriate
    directory.
    bpdbjobs command
  • Abhinay077's avatar
    Abhinay077
    Level 3
    13 years ago

    Thanks for the solution.

     

    But i have already started backup jobs without changing the specified change.. So now is there any way to retain the missing logs back to the activity monitor ?

     

     

  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    No, unfortunately not - once they have been deleted they are gone.

  • Abhinay077's avatar
    Abhinay077
    Level 3
    13 years ago

    Thanks :) Finally i got the solution :) .. But im unhappy for not having a way to retain the logs in activity monitor which are gone :(

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    You can only retain something that you have - not something that is GONE!

    You should still be able to get job info from NBU reports - Job status or All Logs report. The default retention for the error database (where these reports take info from) is 28 days.

  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    If you want to retain them, change the settings that mph999 gave.

     

  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    Moderator
    13 years ago

    The activity monitor is not intended to be a complete log for all backup. It's only intended to see what going on right now and some days back. 

    To see what backup you have you would use the report part of the Netbackup GUI.