11-02-2017 01:01 PM
Been using NBU for a couple of years now in a medium-large enterprise environment. currently we have a lot of now invalid clients defined in the admin console that i would like to eventually remove from the system, just to de-clutter things. as clients have been decomissioned, we have moved them out of their regular backup policies into a policy called 'decomissioned'. this policy doesn'treally do anything, no schedule, no backup, its deactivated actually. i didn't want to just delete the clients that were decomissioned just in case we were called upon to restore data for some reason. i figured having the client out there somewhere would be for the best. but eventually, every backup image for one of these decomissioned clients will expire. at that point, i can see no reason to have the client name exist anywhere in our system.
my question is, what is the best way to validate that no images exist for a client? I know i can search the catalog from within the java admin console, but is there a quicker way? i am wondering about browsing here; masterserver:/cat/images/clientname and looking to see if the directory is empty. if it is empty, i believe that indicates that there are no images. is that correct ?
thank you
11-02-2017 11:38 PM
A restore does not require the client name to be there, but I can understand you want to keep it for the purpose of "knowing" it was a client this environment did the backup for.
To validate if there is still valid image for the client, just do a:
bpimagelist -client <clientname> -s 01/01/1971 -l
An empty result means there is none. But beware, the result may sometimes show you expired images if it's in a media (tape) which is frozen. You can unfreeze the tape to let the images expire by itself.
11-03-2017 12:50 AM
bpimagelist command would also be my choice.
11-03-2017 08:15 AM
thanks for the reply. what do these switches do? i don't see these options in the usage output.
-s 01/01/1971 -l
11-05-2017 04:18 PM
-s <startdate>
is giving it a start date to search within catalog. 1970 is the standard way of capturing all older images.
-l
is to list the image output in brief format. You can also use -L for detailed format, -U for more user-readable format.
11-06-2017 07:48 AM
-s doesn't work in my environment
thanks