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telecomvn
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9 years ago

Tracking hostname in netbackup policy

Hi All 'm using netbackup 7.5.0.6, In the catalog backup, I saw a list of tape backup and polciy name. Currently, this policy is no longer existed in policy list. We need to chech host name ...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    9 years ago

    Something wrong with your picture - it cannot be opened.

    Have you tried bpimagelist?
    Something like:

    bpimagelist -policy <policy_name> -d <start_date> 
    (In '-l' output, the client_name is the 2nd field in IMAGE (header) section of the output.)
    You can script it (depending on master server output) to only display IMAGE section and only display field 2.
    See http://www.veritas.com/docs/000032604

    An easy way to trace policy contents is by regularly exporting policy config.
    (See my post dated 1 Oct.)

    Another way is by restoring the policy from Catalog backup, but this will depend on retention of Catalog policies.
    Since you have a backup date of the client, you can browse the Catalog backup for this day, find this policy and restore it.

     

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sdo
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9 years ago

Do you mean that you want to find out which clients once existed in a backup policy that no longer exists?  If so, then I'm sorry to say there there is no command or native report for that.

Your choices are:

1) Use some of the tips/hints already given in this thread to script something to identify all client names which still have backups and pick out the policy names which no longer exist.

2) Use bplist comman to list the folder structures under /db/class from your oldest catalog backup and again script this to compare to the current policy list - to identify policies which no longer exist - and then perhaps restore those 'class' folder(s) to be able to view the 'client' names inside those policies which no longer exist - but if you've done a version upgrade since those oldest catalog backups - then you may cause a serious issue if you restore a 'class' folder (i.e. a backup policy) across different NetBackup versions.

3) If you have OpsCenter, and it was previously configured to retain job history for a very long time, then you may be able to create a custom report which lists clients no longer in policies, and/or clients in policies for policies that no longer exist, and the date of the last (most recent) backup of these since deleted/removed clients.

HTH.

.

P.S. Some of us run daily capture scripts, i.e. every day record a list of all policies, and save those to a date stamped file.  Then in future months/years we can see (using diff and/or search) when clients were removed.