ContributionsMost RecentMost LikesSolutionsRe: Best way to get a full list of tapes Tape thathave beenused for aschedule FULL backup Best way to get a full list of tapes Guys what is the best way to get a list of full backups for the week. I see there is several different ways. Maybe also eject the tapes too. SolvedRe: Forcing backup policies to use one tape drive The 32 didn’t work well for our application. It may have been because the Proxy servers are also VM’s. Anyway I used 12 for the max streams and that worked grate, the backups are running so much faster. Things are running so much faster now I’m having an issue of jobs failing because two or more Policies are trying to snap a VM on the same data store. Re: Forcing backup policies to use one tape drive Thanks this will help a lot. I have some reading to do. I’m using version 6.5.3.1 mostly for VMWare snaps. So i think my opstion are a little different. this is what i have done. Re: Forcing backup policies to use one tape drive Sorry for the basic questions, fell into the backup guy role. How do you do that? Are you taking about the robot? Forcing backup policies to use one tape drive I have a long running database backup job. I don’t know if the policy is setup incorrectly,When it runs no other backups run. The other jobs hangout in queue till they fail with error code 196(Backup window closed). I was thinking that if I force the job only to use one tape drive the other jobs will run. Side note in the Activity Monitor window only one tape drive seems to be activewith the circler arrow. Re: What tapes have been used for the full backup???Thank you guys... Works grate with the –media, exactly what I was looking for. Media ID Last Written Server -------- ---------------- ---------- 000014 10/20/2009 20:38 corebu01 000003 10/19/2009 18:02 corebu01 Re: What tapes have been used for the full backup???Thanks for the help. I ran the command and i received this output... [root@corebu01 bin]# bpimagelist -hoursago 48 -st FULL -U Backed Up Expires Files KB C Sched Type Policy The GUI seems to work. I have to copy and paste into Excel. What tapes have been used for the full backup??? I’m new to netbackup 6.5.3.1.I’m looking for an easy way to run a report that will tell me what tapes have been used for the full backups. Under reports I don’t see an option for that, unless I’m missing it. Solved