Monitoring unfinished replication progress

[Michael_G_Ander]

Hello

Have somebody found a way to monitor the progress of unfinished replication ?

Know there is some reports in OpsCenter, but they all seem be on the complete images.

 Where I am looking for: Kilobytes transferred, number of fragments transferred or simllar to tell me how far a long the image in progress is.

Have looked at nbstlutil/nbstl list options, the support site, connect and of course google search without luck.

Regards

Michael

[areznik]

If the replication is in progress there should be a Job in the Activity monitor? are you looking for something else?

[Nicolai]

Have you seen Omar script for UNIX 

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/netbackup-slp-backlog-report-and-troubleshooting

I know you are on Windows, but you may find inspiration.

[sdo]

I think what Michael is after is a method to determine progress, position, size, percentage done, ETA for active 'in flight' SLP and/or AIR replication.  Right Michael?

[RiaanBadenhorst]

I think you would need to go look around in the bpdm logs. Not the ones in /usr/openv/netbackup, but the ones in /disk/log/spac/appliance_name/blahblah (7.5.0.x / 7.6.0.x code) or the same type of location in /msdp/x/x/x/x/x (7.6.1.x code)

[sdo]

If we can identify which log entries are pertinent, then we may be able to script it.

Winldows DOS/cmd+VBcscript , or ksh/bah?

[Michael_G_Ander]

Hadn't seen that article, very nice script and might port it to windows at some point.

Same "issue" as the OpsCenter reports, that is about full images.

[Michael_G_Ander]

Yes, would like to know how far along a replication is.

[Michael_G_Ander]

Preferly Powershell.

[Michael_G_Ander]

Can see that there is a lot of getJobBytesProcessed entries in this bpdm log, now I just need to figure out where the result is sent to.

[RiaanBadenhorst]

Can you post what it looks like. Don't have a aIR system at hand. Would be cool to see the output and if we can use it somehow.

[Michael_G_Ander]

Found ost_pxy_update_job_data entries in the netbackup bpdm logs, which seems to be information about kilobytes written on a replication.

Would be very useful if that information was send to the Job Details of replication jobs

[Michael_G_Ander]

Looks like this:

06:02:33.239 [10360.10428] <2> ost_pxy_update_job_data: WROTE hostname_epochtime 287429 0 0.000 0

06:02:33.239 [10360.10428] <2> ost_pxy_update_job_data: WROTE hostname_epochtime 0 0 0.000 0

So think that you could use ost_pxy_update_job_data and backupid to find to actual kilobytes transferred

[RiaanBadenhorst]

Yes, that looks possible, you'll need to test and see if the figures look reasonable.

[Michael_G_Ander]

Just tested, sadly not as useful as I had hoped, as most of the ost_pxy_update_job_data: entries just contained 0 values after the backupid.

[sdo]

In this:

06:02:33.239 [10360.10428] <2> ost_pxy_update_job_data: WROTE hostname_epochtime 287429 0 0.000 0

...what does this "287429" field denote/signify?

[Azhar4]

tht is the KB transferred in tht bucket