Hoping that this might prove useful for some. It's a Windows DOS/batch script which will query all NetBackup clients and retrieve basic details such as version, and installation path, and OS type, etc.. and create a CSV file which can then be used/m...
Please find the list of steps to troubleshoot Oracle backup failures during Backup Tool Migrations. Here in this case the migration from Backup Exec to Netbackup. Also the resolutions have been added.
Another simple windows script that sets tape drive cleanings to 196 hours. This setting drops off after a library re-scan, this means you dont have to reset........
A pretty simple script to set as a scheduled task that will email you the details of frozen tapes. It doesn’t unfreeze them, you should really ask – why are they frozen? You should change the directories text in the body.txts to suit.
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...
This is a small script I wrote for use in NetBackup 5.1 and ported to use in 6.5. It uses a file configured with servers to monitor and will send out an alert report if it finds drives in AVR mode or if ltid on a monitored server is not active. It h...
A brief 5 minute overview of what's new in NetBackup 6.5.4. If you want a deeper dive, sign-up the July 17th webcast. You can find the registration link at www.symantec.com/netbackup on the right hand side of the screen in the webcast window shade....
Hello, This is very useful and handy script. Check Drives on Master Server, if down, bring drive up. Send an email to some one who cares. If the drives are up it does not create the report. Before using kindly edit the script to add your email id...
Hello All, This script list all the files on a media, it requires a mediaid as input. Note - Rename this file as .ksh from .txt
Hello All, This is a Korn (ksh) script. This script gives Tape usage report by Robot - Works for multiple Robots, robot types Slave servers, media types. Must be run on NetBackup Master server Note- Rename this file to .ksh from .txt
Hello All, This is the shell script which checks the number of scratch tapes and also sends mail if that is under threshold value. Edit this script to set your MINSCRATCH count and your email ID. Also rename this file to .sh from .txt
Hello All, Here is a very simple batch file for NT/2000 which loads media from the CAP of a library, into the slots of the library, and assigns the data to the scratch_pool.
NetBackup has an add on called 'OTM' this stands for Open Transaction Manager and it backs up open files by copying them byte for byte into a special file called _vxfiVspCacheFile. Sometimes NetBackup does not do the decent thing and delete this file...
This is a script to monitor Netbackup policy changes. It is extremely basic as I am not a programmer but it does meet my needs. It runs the bppllist command to an output that sets the benchmark and then when run on a daily basis it simply does a diff...
