Ok answers to my questons: The report to I can figure out althought the report function does take a bit of getting used to.
The overwrite append period, that is retension. It is differant terminolgy in BackupExec.
It would be nice if you guys could use the same terminolgy for both systems, anyway that is another story.
Also some useful documentation, all of your documentation is a 500 page manual. Not really the best method for teaching people who are new the software. Anyway...
Actually all of the documentation is in about 10 manuals including a System Admin Guide in 2 volumes, a Media Manager Guide, etc. It isn't necessarily the best way to teach someone new to the software but short of sending someone out, it is about the only way. By the way, I don't speak for Veritas.
here is link to a perl script that provides a nice report based on bperror, it actualy does not mail itself to you, but it can be easily modifed to do so, and you will need to install BLAT