05-21-2015 08:48 AM
Hi Experts,
Pls help with the below queries.
1:- How could we ensure that our backup policy was successfull if we dont have no jobs in activity monitor(Its blank) but we can run commands on the server.
2:- What happen to the images that are left incomplete in the tape and when do these get deleted? Where is the option to change it?
Lets say a server backup is running it wrote 2 gb data on tape and it got failed after leaving 2 gb incomplete image on tape?
3:- We have a flat file policy which has one server and 3 streams. I need to check if its parent stream got successfull or not. I checked in catalog but found 2 streams got successfull. Suppose we have 15 streams so i dont think we need to check in catlog for each stream to ensure backup got successfull or not. There might be some way to check if its parent stream is successfull we may consider this poilcy as successfull. (We dont have jobs in activity monitor)
Thanks & Regards,
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05-22-2015 03:13 AM
There is no bpdbjobs option to specify policy name. You will need to use basic Windows commands (like findstr) to extract specific info.
Here you will need a Windows scripting expert to assist you.
Some bpdbjobs TNs:
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH65123
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH181810
If you search this forum, you will find LOTS of posts about bpdbjobs and customizing output.
Why not troubleshoot and fix Activity Monitor issues?
05-21-2015 04:25 PM
05-22-2015 03:00 AM
Hi Marianne,
Thanks for the solution. Netbackup is not opening but bpdbjobs is running
One queuy bpdbjobs -all shows all backups.
Can we customize the command say we put policy name and date and it shows all the backups that got successfull/fail.
05-22-2015 03:13 AM
There is no bpdbjobs option to specify policy name. You will need to use basic Windows commands (like findstr) to extract specific info.
Here you will need a Windows scripting expert to assist you.
Some bpdbjobs TNs:
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH65123
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH181810
If you search this forum, you will find LOTS of posts about bpdbjobs and customizing output.
Why not troubleshoot and fix Activity Monitor issues?
05-22-2015 03:37 AM
You can use awk, so for a simple awk program you can use:
bpdbjobs -t "mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS" | awk '$5 == "name_of_policy" '
HH:MM:SS is optional so you can just specify mm/dd/yyyy, so if you want for example to show all jobs of policy OS since 05/20/2015 run:
bpdbjobs -t "05/20/2015" | awk '$5 == "OS" '
or for windows:
bpdbjobs -t "05/20/2015" | findstr " OS "
Mike
05-22-2015 05:12 AM
To add to Mariannes answer
If non MPX backups, and the backup fails the tape rewinds to the beginning of the failed backup and rewrites the logical EOD (end-of-data) mark, effectivly removing the failed backup. The next backup will actually overwrite the failed backup.
If however, the tape spans to another, and then fails, the tape that is 'spanned to' will be deassigned (and therefore reused) but the first part of the failed backup on the end of the first tape is left. That space will only be reclaimed when the tape expires.
This behavior cannot be changed.
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