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....
Thought getting the size of backup for each client we have in netbackup. Sat one day and ploted out this script. We are now using this on a monthly basis for capacity planning. This was really useful for me. This will give you the client wise size o...
Hey Guys, Still using human resources to do netbackup update ? Just look @ NetBackup Live update. Below mentioned document wil help you to do. Configure the Live Update Server as per below document. http://support.veritas.com/docs/317256 While f...
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.
Hello This is the script I am using to be notified about tape drives which are in the DOWN or AVR status. I am running it from crontab every 30 mins, and if any drive is in DOWN or AVR state I am sending out an emial to me, and in some locations is c...
Hello, Quite often application admins or DBAs inquire us about backup policies for certains hosts. To meet their needs we have written a script to build a report on backup policies (and their attributes). This script yelds a CSV file that, in turn, ...
Application admins or DBAs quite often inqury us to provide them information on how certain hosts are backed up. To fullfill their requests I've written a Korn shell script that takes the host names from the text file and yelds policy, schedule, freq...
We use TapeAlerts for drive cleaning in our NetBackup environment. But when it concerns human intervention, we use the following script as a framework for our cleaning activities. It is self-explainatory, so I'm not going to disscuss it here in deta...
Hello Guys, I think you would have looked at my Article "Low Disk Space" and some of you may intersted in enabling VSS as a Snapshot Provider. https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/low-disk-space But you may lazy and worry to to do this...
This simple script I wrote creates a file system with many small files, for use to illustrate the benefits of NetBackup's FlashBackup functionality, which does a raw disk backup of the file system (very fast), but also gets the file system's metadata...
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...
Script to Count the SQL DB's backed up in Daily manner Guidelines: 1. Create a file D:\Servers.txt with List of Clients 2. Open the script file and change the line below as per your installed path. Set objExec = objShell.Exec("SETX HOMEPATH D:\Progra...
