Netbackup 8.1: bplist generates error "EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found"

[itchamp111]

I performed a few backups of C:\DELL in a policy but bplist doesn't show any list of backup. I tried all following ways but it didn't work.

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -l
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -l
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -l -R c:\
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -l -R c:\Dell
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -s 07/18/19 -l -R c:\Dell
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -s 07/18/19 -l -R C:\DELL
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -t 13 -s 07/18/19 -l -R C:\DELL
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -t 13 -R C:\DELL
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -t 13 -R C:\
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -R C:\
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

[Marianne]

Are you sure that you have successful backups for this client name with exact hostname (as configured in backup Policy), same case, etc?

Looking at your other post, it seems you have some test backups for client names mylaptop1 and mylaptop2.

If you have a successful MS-Windows backup for that hostname, try this: 

bplist -C DellLaptop -t 13 -R  / 

To troubleshoot restore or browse issues, ensure that you have bprd log folder on the master server (restart NBU after creating the folder).
You can then see in the log how the request is interpreted.

[Lowell_Palecek]

The NetBackup catalog stores filename paths in Unix format, even when the client OS is Windows. That's why @Marianne's syntax specified '/' as the path. "/C/" probably would work, too. There's nothing in the catalog that looks like C:, and '\' is the escape character.

[Mike_Gavrilov]

Try to use:

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C DellLaptop -t 13 -R -l / | findstr dell