Searches in Netbackup

Policy name is case sensitive. (Windows is not, but the database most definitely is...)

Is that the issue?

What is your case #?

-Edit- In addition you should pipe to findstr and use the wildcards available.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490907.aspx

Sorry, no option to use wildcards,  bpflist is a list command, not a search command

This bpflist command works listing NDMP backup specifying a policy

bpflist -client YYY-06-dm2  -d 04/01/2015 -policy XX_NDMP_VNX-DM2 -pt NDMP -rl 999 -option GET_ALL_FILES

make sure client is specifyed with the right name - ndmp and ndmp.acme.com is not the same host for netbackup.

As mnolan mentioned, match case, NDMP_POLICY and ndmp_policy is not the same for Netbackup.

Thats why he is piping to a search cmd

"GET_ALL_FILES | find "Personal.pst" "

Except per my recommendation piping to findstr and using wildcards might work out.

Hi, it is case # 09054338.  Opened about 2-3 weeks ago.  I am aware about it being case sensitive, searching for Personal.pst vs personal.pst brings different results.  I am SURE I type the policy name exactly as it is specified, but the no entity found happens each time.

And with the Symantec engineer we did try the findstr with the "*.pst" or "./.pst", still no entity found - response with findstr and wild card:

E:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bpflist -client oocsvondmp -d 04/01/2015
-e 05/01/2015 -pt NDMP -rl 999 -policy OOCNMDP04_nt05643f -option GET_ALL_FILES
| findstr ".\.pst" > C:\output2.txt
no entity was found

Example using search without wildcard and adding policy name:

E:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bpflist -client oocsvondmp -d 04/01/2015
-e 05/01/2015 -pt NDMP -rl 999 -policy OOCNMDP04_nt05643f -option GET_ALL_FILES
| find "personal.pst" > C:\output3.txt
no entity was found

Here is the actual policy name copied from NBU Admin - OOCNDMP04_nt05643f

Thanks for all your ideas!

Another note - if I just add to the search findstr "./.pst" and do not add the -policy switch, it seems like the command runs, it creates the output file, but there is nothing in it at all.  I went thru the manual restore process and see many files with .pst as the extension for the client in the date range specified.

Could you provide output from this command?

bpclimagelist -client orlhm-drfiler-a -s 04/01/2015 -e 05/01/2015 -st 19

The client name listed above is from my old employer, so that wouldn't work.  So I tried to run it with the current employer and client name of oocsvondmp..

I got an error with the -st part:

E:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bpclimagelist -client oocsvondmp -s 04/01
/2015 -e 05/01/2015 -st 19
bpclimagelist: unrecognized option -st
USAGE: bpclimagelist [-U | -Likelydate] [-Listseconds]
      [-client clientname] [-server servername] [-BE]
      [-t FULL | INCR | CINC | UBAK | UARC | TLOG | ANY | NOT_ARCHIVE]
      [-policy policy_name] [-keyword "keyword phrase"] [-ct client_type]
      [-s mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS] [-e mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS]

So I tried it without the st -19.  It seemed to work, but nothing on the screen.  So I set it to show output to a file.  It created the file, but it was empty

E:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bpclimagelist -client oocsvondmp -s 04/01
/2015 -e 05/01/2015 > c:\bpclimagelist.txt

Yes I mistyped, relayed the correct information to your support engineer, reviewing the information it retrieved.

Got it mnolan!  Here are the results:

Backed Up         Expires       Files      KB     C Sched Type      Policy
----------------  ---------- -------- ----------- - --------------- ------------
04/30/2015 13:00  08/01/2015   345819   303081963 N Full Backup     OOCNDMP05_nt05643h
04/30/2015 12:15  08/01/2015  3136539  2351359475 N Full Backup     OOCNDMP04_nt05643f
04/29/2015 20:35  07/31/2015    28661      657784 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP08_oocsvonas
04/29/2015 14:11  07/31/2015   685916  2561360270 N Full Backup     OOCNDMP07_oocsvonas
04/29/2015 14:11  07/31/2015  2818207  1912938512 N Full Backup     OOCNDMP03_nt05643d
04/29/2015 14:11  07/31/2015  1894834  1173516140 N Full Backup     OOCNDMP08_oocsvonas
04/28/2015 14:00  07/30/2015  3900137  1815196138 N Full Backup     OOCNDMP02_nt05643c
04/27/2015 18:00  07/29/2015   149624  1638281856 N Full Backup     OOCNDMP06_oocpst
04/23/2015 15:55  07/25/2015   112719   134990024 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP05_nt05643h
04/23/2015 13:20  07/25/2015    93075   117768890 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP04_nt05643f
04/22/2015 15:00  07/24/2015   250508   841761692 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP08_oocsvonas
04/22/2015 15:00  07/24/2015    71309  1751799077 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP07_oocsvonas
04/22/2015 15:00  07/24/2015   138869    73934844 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP03_nt05643d
04/21/2015 15:00  07/23/2015   542545   343081356 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP02_nt05643c
04/20/2015 21:00  07/22/2015     3048   603446664 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP06_oocpst
04/16/2015 15:00  07/18/2015   108363   129152866 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP05_nt05643h
04/16/2015 12:30  07/18/2015   124200   157322255 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP04_nt05643f
04/15/2015 15:00  07/17/2015   255816   816207204 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP08_oocsvonas
04/15/2015 15:00  07/17/2015    41337  1589006212 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP07_oocsvonas
04/15/2015 15:00  07/17/2015   124286    68677948 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP03_nt05643d
04/14/2015 15:00  07/16/2015   509736   271984506 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP02_nt05643c
04/13/2015 21:00  07/15/2015     3069   590047624 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP06_oocpst
04/09/2015 15:00  07/11/2015    57785    30247066 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP05_nt05643h
04/09/2015 12:30  07/11/2015    90201   132938589 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP04_nt05643f
04/08/2015 15:00  07/10/2015    34997   959125550 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP07_oocsvonas
04/08/2015 15:00  07/10/2015   106693    66235867 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP03_nt05643d
04/08/2015 15:00  07/10/2015   253452   619362827 N Cinc Backup     OOCNDMP08_oocsvonas

Reviewed the information, policy (not the one listed here but the actual one from the case) is not listed in the output.

bpflist will fail with the (227) no entity found when the policy either does not come back in the results or has incorrect case.

bpflist working correctly.