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Netbackup Inventory Script - Windows 2003 / 2008

Netbackup Inventory Script - Windows 2003 / 2008 Save the below as a folder of your choice. It first rotates logs, in my script these are in  D:\scripts\Netbackup Media Management\Inventory\ (please change the directory to suit) Then updates the inve...

bperror perl script

#The following filters out select columns, filters out the most recent job results for #a given client/policy/schedule, converts the ctime to readable format and sorts by schedule example: bperror -backstat -l -d 07/20/2011 -e 07/20/2011 | errorchk....

SLPs, Almost a Beginner’s Guide

Here is my presentation from the Phoenix Storage & High Availability User Group Meeting on June 16, 2011.   Hopefully this will be helpful to someone and feel free to contact me if you have any other thoughts or questions.

Holowinski by Level 3
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Ubuntu 11.04 VM with MHVTL over ISCSI

New version of virtual machine which can be used to testing and training. MHVTL is a open source VTL project developed by Symantec employee - Mark Harvey. (http://sites.google.com/site/linuxvtl2/) I added ISCSI functionality by integrating MHVTL with...

Script about the count of available media in Robot

Hi, Here is the script that gives count of available media in robot according to hcart2 and hcart3 ( thisis up to you ). You can put this script into crontab so email can be send backup operator groups. /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_medi...

Policy Changes Alert

This script checks for the Policy changes made in netbackup and shows all the change made in the Policy database from the last run time of this script.

Backup to removable disks - finding media

This little script may be useful to others making backups to multiple removable disks. The main problem with this approach is that there is no place within BE's GUI and no report to find out on which of your removable disks a certain media file is pr...

harsi by Level 5
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Re-Register VSS on Windows Server 2008

Many of us are facing issue with Windows Server 2008 Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) failure while backing up. The batch file will re-register the VSS DLLs, you need to reboot the server after running the script. (Applicable ONLY for Windows Server ...

Dev_T by Level 6
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Netbackup Report Writer

Hi NBU Folks, In this download I'm sharing the VB utility that i coded to generate Netbackup reports. Features. Can be automated to run daily.Either run it on master or media server, But it needs to be Windows as its a VB utility.Can be used to trace...

Conslidated Drive Management Script

The script is intended to automate the drive monitoring. The drive goes down due to read / write failures. The monitoring needs to be done to bring up the drives to make sure that backup happens through those drives. This script is in execut...

Deepak_G by Level 6
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Drive Up Script for Netbackup

Hi Folks, I wrote this script last year during my engagement with a major bank in India. The customer had 150 media servers and it was cumbersome and time consuming to up the drives. Along with using this script, Its adviceable to closely monitor the...

Script to check if backup for critical client running or not

Description: This script will monitor backup jobs and send a mail to Backup Admin or some who cares if the job is running. Put the entry in the cron and this will send mail as per given interval in cron job. Cron job example: 0 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,...

kumar3 by Level 4
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NetBackup RealTime Sizing Advisor 7.0

  RealTime Advisor is a planning tool that helps you determine the minimum  storage requirements for RealTime by analyzing a sample of your data writes to the production volumes that will be protected.  This is accomplished by collecting  logs from t...

Netbackup Policy Reporter

Its quite common for management or other teams asking for Netbackup Policies and A netbackup admin needs to keep these details updated every time there are changes done to the policy. I found this need to automate this task which made me to write t...

Clients at Risk

This reporting script generates a report for clients that have had problems backing up for: The past 2 consecutive days The past 3 consecutive days No backups for the past 7 days No backups for the past 24 hours Error code 196 (Window Closed) # Pur...

Netbackup Detailed Changed Policies Report

This is a report script that tracks changes from day-to-day. It provides more details than Deepak's script (http://www.symantec.com/connect/downloads/policy-change-details-script) for those who want more.  This is designed to run once per day via cr...