bpclimagelist - how does it work

[DennisBerry]

Hi, I have a linux server with with netbackup client installed. I am running the bpclimagelist command from this server (/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpclimagelist) to see the status of backup jobs that have been scheduled to run on this server. Can someone tell me where does bpclimagelist get it's information from - is it from log files on the local server or is it from the image database on the Master server ?

Thank You

[Mark_Solutions · Accepted solution]

Any listing of backup images comes from the images catalog on the Master Server (either db\images or also the EMM in NBU  7.5)

Hope this helps

[Yasuhisa_Ishika]

bpclimagelist provides information about backup images of successful backup, but does not provide status code of failed jobs. To get status code of backups, use "bperror -backstat" on master server instead.

[DennisBerry]

@Mark

Thank you, that's what I suspected. There does not seem to be much documentation anywhere so I was seeking confirmation on this aspect of it. So to ask a question, if my client loses connection to the Master Server then my locally running bpclimagelist command will fail ?

@Yasuhisa

I understand what you are saying, however, I do not have access to the master server so I am not able to run any commands on it. I only have access to the client and I was trying to learn as much as I can about running the bpclimagelist command on it.

[Mark_Solutions]

You are right - without connection to the master you will not be able to get the output from the command - it would probably fail with a failed to connect 25 error (or similar - i haven't actually tried it) Glad we could help