Reports to be maintained for 1 year

[Rithesh]

Hi All,

we have netbackup 6.5.2 ent server running on win2k3.

I need to obtain 6 months / 1year reports from admin console for audit purpose.
In master server property, cleanup tab- keep logs is set to 31 days.

I think i need to change the settings here for the above subject.

The problem is that i have only one drive which has only 10 gb free space.
If i change this to 366 days i think tremendous amt of logs need to be retain.

Is there any other settings for this?
IS there any specific logs which i can store to some network share drive ?

Can anyone suggest a solution for this.

Thanks
rithesh

[J_H_Is_gone]

Setting up NOM on a different server and keeping stuff there for 1 year and doing your reports from NOM could be an option.
 

[Stumpr2]

I think this may be more for NetBackup Advanced Reporter (NBAR) rather than NetBackup Operations manager (NOM).
NBAR is for historical data analysys while NOM is for real or short  time data analysys.
....Another solution is to  dump the data daily into an xcel spreadsheet.
You can setup the desired columns and format and export the activity monitor
You can use CLI command bpdbjobs to get raw text data and format it and import it as cvs into a spreadsheet.

[udubplate]

 Check out VBR http://www.symantec.com/business/products/multimedia.jsp?pcid=2244&pvid=73_1

[Deepak_W]

Rithesh,

NetBackup Advanced Reporter (NBAR) is not supported with NetBackup 6.0 and later releases.  NBAR can...

You still have some options available as mentioned below -

1. NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM) - This product is free for NBU customers and can be used as a handy tool where there is need of backup reports.

2. Verias Backup Reporter (VBR) - This is licensed software and is mainly used in environment where there are heterogeneous backup applications are installed.
For eg. - Tivoli, NBU, BE, etc.
This software can collect reports cenrally from all applications.


If you are having only NBU in your environment then go ahead and implement NOM, or else go for VBR.

Hope this helps and resolves your query.

[Rithesh]

Hi all,

I do have NOM on our environment, but i didn't try much n that--means i tried to create customize report but failed...
Anyways do anyone please guide me what config has to be done for my issue.

Thanks
Ritesh

[Mouse]

wait for NBU 7.0 where you'll find OpsCenter - NOM and VBR combined into one product with historical reports

[Stumpr2]

Rithesh,
Please consider using the CLI bpdbjobs for the following reasons:
1. FREE
2. customize is easy
3. command is well documented
4.helps increase your knowledge about NetBackup
5. bpdbjobs has stood the test of time and is reliable.
6. portable as it is in every NetBackup master server installation.

To learn more about this important CLI command please see the appropriate document

- Commands for Windows (  http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290235.htm )
 

- Commands for UNIX and Linux (  http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290234.htm )

 

[Stumpr2]

Deepak is correct that NBAR has been upgraded to a new product name VBR.
Same concept just more bells and whistles :)

[Deepak_W]

check below TN as required

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290227.htm

[LeeBieneman]

I have the same type of scenerio...for auditing purposes.   We have over 900 servers in our enviroment, but I need to keep 1 year of  job information on only about 15 servers. I am running 6.5.5 on a RHEL 5 master server.

I am fairly new to NetBackup CLI commands and understand from a post above that this can be accomplished via bpdbjobs to get raw text data and format it and import it as cvs into a spreadsheet.  We do not own VBR, but will be implementing NOM in the next few weeks.

Does anyone have a CLI command example to provide me on how to accomplish this.

Thanks SO in advance!

[Stumpr2]

Formatting the output from the bpdbjobs command in VERITAS NetBackup (tm) 4.5 and 5.x
http://support.veritas.com/docs/266314

This does work with NetBackup 6.5.4

# bpdbjobs -report -jobid 1893884
  JobID State Att Status          Client Schedule           Started    Elapsed    Policy   Type
1893884  Done   1      1 bobstumpsclient.bkp   Weekly 01/22/10 10:00:00  001:38:30 TOOLS Backup


# grep -i bpdbjobs_coldef /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf | grep -v ^#
BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = JobID 5 true
BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = State 5 true
BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = Attempt 3 true
BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = Status 6 true
BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = Client 12 true
BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = Schedule 8 true
BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = Started 10 true
BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = Elapsed 10 true
BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = Policy 6 true
BPDBJOBS_COLDEFS = Type 5 true

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[LeeBieneman]

thanks so much...this gives me a great place to start!!!