Netbackup Policy Reporter
Its quite common for management or other teams asking for Netbackup Policies and A netbackup admin needs to keep these details updated every time there are changes done to the policy. I found this need to automate this task which made me to write this tool. Details: Generates the Backup Policy ReportWindows based script to identify top folder/file in backup images...
Sometimes it's not easy to quickly determine which images contain specific drives/volumes/folder-sets. Here's a simple reporting script which will list backup images, and the first 'name' entry at the top of the backup image contents.Windows script to collect NetBackup client details in to a CSV file...
Hoping that this might prove useful for some. It's a Windows DOS/batch script which will query all NetBackup clients andretrieve basic details such as version, and installation path, and OS type, etc.. and create a CSV file which can then be used/manipulated/filtered in MS Excel.
How to export the list of all Backup Exec Remote Agent servers in Backup Exec 2012
The following scripts will enable you to find all servers with Remote Agents installed and will export to a .csv file. It is strongly suggested to use these scripts on a test environment first: 1. Download the "ServerList.zip" file. 2. Extract it to a folder. 3. Move the folder to a server where Backup Exec Database (BEDB) is stored.Perl script that checks the XML file on the local BESR client for the real status of the backup job
This script checks the XML file that stores the real status of the assigened backup job. It assumes that the backups are taken daily, if the job did not run it reports the actual last runtime of the job. You need to run it as scheduled task under a user account which has read permissions on the servers.
Policy Change - Details script
There is no mechanism in netbackup to track the changes in the policies. We can get the details of the modified policies only from the OS level. This script can be added in the crontab and when executing it will find the policies which were changed in the last 24 hrs and send the details in mail.
Netbackup Report Script to determine media used by clients
The attached UNIX bash script "media_used_by_clients.txt" is a script I wrote so we could track by server/client what media was used . This gives us a daily history on a per server basis for what tapes are needed in the event of a disaster. We have this setup in a crontab entry on our master servers. A suggested crontab entry would be:
