tape content display

[cimo]

hello!

I need a report that display the tape content, in terms of saved file and not of backup image. This is not the same thing because these backups are huge and a single backup image resides on several LTO6 tapes.

Thank you very much!

Simone

[revarooo]

So you want to see what files were backed up to a specific tape?

you can't do that. You can however get a list of images on tape then cat_convert the image.f that resides in netbackup\db\images\ to display the files captured in that particular image.

[Nicolai · Accepted solution]

You can't (as Revaroo say) display what filles are on a single tape when the backup image spans multiple tapes.

Netbackup register files in a backup image, that then is spread over multiple fragment. Fragments can be located on many diffrent tapes.

You can display what files are in a backup image using bpflist.

[cimo]

Ok thank you.

I already integrated in a custom script the following command to get the saved file list:

bpflist -backupid $i -d $YESTERDAY -e $TODAY -option GET_ALL_FILES -rl 999

In other words, if the image backup is spanned in more then one tape, we don't know wich tape are requested for a granular restore, or all tapes are requested?

Simone

[Nicolai]

The Netbackup usually telly you which tapes are needed in the GUI

But you are right - if you need to bring tapes back to the robot, you need to bring all of them. Netbackup might only need one but could also use all of them.

[jmontagu]

Simone:

You can get a report on the file contents for an individual piece of media. With the -mcontents argument, Netbackup mounts the tape and reads the file list from the tape:

bpmedialist -mcontents -m AEK802

The output will look something like this:

File number 1
Backup id = hat_0915786605
Creation date = 01/08/2007 03:10
Expiration date = 01/15/2007 03:10
Retention level = 0
Copy number = 1
Fragment number = 2
Block size (in bytes) = 65536
File number 2
Backup id = hat_0915809009
Creation date = 01/08/2007 09:23
Expiration date = 01/15/2007 09:23
Retention level = 0
Copy number = 1
Fragment number = 1
Block size (in bytes) = 65536
Example 4 - Produce a Media List report for master