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asru1927
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13 years ago
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streams writing to drives

Good morning.

I am after a bit of advice please.

NBU 7.1.0.4 running on AIX 7.1

2 x Tape libraries as backup targets

I was wondering if there was a command (or a list of commands) I can run to find out exactly how many streams are writing to each tape device at a particular time.  I have looked at nbrbutil and I can see the allocations to a drive however I was wondering if there was any other useful commands out there that I hadn't stumbled upon yet.

Thanks in advance

 

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  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    13 years ago

    Would be a great feature if such a command existed. The only way I know is using bpdbjobs -all_columns and then do a sort/grep of the tape field.

    You should be able to find the media ID field from this tech note.

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO72644

    Best Regards

    Nicolai

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  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    Moderator
    13 years ago

    Would be a great feature if such a command existed. The only way I know is using bpdbjobs -all_columns and then do a sort/grep of the tape field.

    You should be able to find the media ID field from this tech note.

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO72644

    Best Regards

    Nicolai

  • sri_vani's avatar
    sri_vani
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    also for a particular tape:

     

    sudo ./bpimagelist -L | grep "Medianame0107L5" |awk 'BEGIN{x=0;}{x=x+$1;}END{x;}'

  • sri_vani's avatar
    sri_vani
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    my bad,This reply applies to only completed backup not for the backups which are currently active

  • asru1927's avatar
    asru1927
    Level 3
    13 years ago

    Hi,

    Thanks for the responses.

    I have searched the highs and lows for such command and agree with NIcolai that it would be a really useful feature.  The way I have been achieving this is running the following:

    nbrbustil -listActiveJobs 

    and then matching the Jobid to what I can see the in activity monitor...