NetBackup, a Windows based script to identify oldest backup images by storage type.
One of the more complicated facets of NetBackup is that the 'copy number' of a backup image bears no relation to its locality/residence/age or duplication life history. The copy number of a backup image is an arbitary number, and does not convey any meaning other than the fact that a copy of the image exists.
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.
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: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 and retrieve 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.
A script to report on backup policy configuration for particular hosts
Application admins or DBAs quite often inqury us to provide them information on how certain hosts are backed up. To fullfill their requests I've written a Korn shell script that takes the host names from the text file and yelds policy, schedule, frequency and retention level for each data set of the host.
