bplist EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

[louacif]

hello,

i have installed netbackup 6.5 on linux client. the graphic interface of linux is not installed so i can't run netbackup interface for backup and restore from this client.
for backup, there is no problem because i do it from master, i have problem withrestore. i need to restore directly from client. i have run bplist to see the list file in the backup but it get error :

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C srvddebck -s 10/13/2009

EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

thanks

[Andy_Welburn · Accepted solution]

If you run bplist without the filename at the end, it runs the command with the current working directory as its search parameter.

So in esssence, for your command, you are looking for backup images for C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin for client srvddebck from 10/13/2009, & I doubt very much that this is what you are searching for.

Try running it as follows:

bplist -C srvddebck -R -s 10/13/2009 C:

This should recursively list files/folders backed up for your clients C: drive since 13th October.

(Not sure why, but I always get a EC227 when I try to interrogate a Windows box from a UNIX platform & vice versa - something to do with the path/filename but yet to tie it down properly yet ;) )

See also this T/N: DOCUMENTATION: How to list files that are backed up on a particular client ...

[louacif]

thanks, i have run the command successfully

[Andy_Welburn]

:)

[Nicolai]

I bow in the dust of pure respect ;)

[Anonymous]

Andy,
I think you might need to specify the policy type, just done a test:

From my UNIX master querying a Windows Client C drive

# bplist -C fredclient -R -s 10/12/2009 /C
EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found

# bplist -C fredclient -t 13 -R -s 10/12/2009 /C

This works!

[Andy_Welburn]

on the money again! The /C was catching me out too!

[bkptech]

The solution for this issue is correct but if you place a "/" forward slash at the end of the command, it will give you all the directories (C:, D, G....etc) so you wont have to do one drive letter at a time.

bplist -C srvddebck -R -s 10/13/2009 /