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KiemannSRZC
2 months ago

NetBackup Occupancy per Object

Hello everyone,

i have a question, I’m searching for a REST-API endpoint, where I can get the occupancy of backup objects.

In the Netbackup Dashboard, I get the current used size group by type (VMWare, Microsoft SQL, Postgres) but I want the information pro vm or database. So i can see the vm docker01 used 4.57GB, file01 use 67GB or the database “app” on sql server sql01 use 4.2GB. 

Currently i use the Endpoint /catalog/images where i get the information for every backup task, with the expiration of the backup. But if I summarize all images in the expiration date I get different results as if I use the Netbackup dashboard.

Thanks

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    davidmoline
    Level 6
    2 months ago

    Hi KiemannSRZC 

    If I understand your question, you are referring to the usage reporting in the dashboard. This is a licensing meter and does not report the sum for all backups, but reflects the license consumption that is being used for all the backups you run. It is effectively (and this is a very basic explanation) a sum of the largest backup from each client over a period of time (which is 90 days I think). 

    What metric are you looking to obtain for "occupancy of backup objects"? Are you wanting to find how much backup storage is being used for each client/client/type etc. or something else? 

    If you are looking at the API endpoint catalog/images and summing the results, this is capturing all the backups, so (I hope) is showing a much greater size than the dashboard. 

    If you are running a newer version try looking at the licensing/capacity or licensing/capacity/clients-details API calls - this may give what you need (I'm not sure what version this was introduced in but it is available in 10.5). 

    Cheers