Forum Discussion

cimo's avatar
cimo
Level 4
10 years ago

tape content display

hello!   I need a report that display the tape content, in terms of saved file and not of backup image. This is not the same thing because these backups are huge and a single backup image resid...
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  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    10 years ago

    You can't (as Revaroo say) display what filles are on a single tape when the backup image spans multiple tapes.

    Netbackup register files in a backup image, that then is spread over multiple fragment. Fragments can be located on many diffrent tapes.

    You can display what files are in a backup image using bpflist.

     

Nicolai's avatar
Nicolai
Moderator
10 years ago

The Netbackup usually telly you which tapes are needed in the GUI

But you are right - if you need to bring tapes back to the robot, you need to bring all of them. Netbackup might only need one but could also use all of them.