Re: Space

[Michael Gaines]

At 12:52 PM -0900 on 1/30/2001, you wrote:
>I'll look for that, I just happened to get FMP 5 the other day.
>
>What about someone who does not have FMP though?
>
>
>>Unless I'm missing something, you can do this using the Retrospect 
>>Event Handler and the FMP template that is included with Retrospect.
>>

Actually you'll also need to copy the information out of the 
Retrospect Database Handlers file (also included with Retrospect) 
into the Retrospect Event Handler.

Since the Event Handler is AppleScript it should be fairly easy to 
reconfigure the commands to pass the raw data to whatever scriptable 
application you want. As a worst case, you could have it pass the 
data out to a tab-delimited text file and then import that into 
whatever program you wanted for analysis.
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Re: Space

[Tim David]

I have FileMaker 5 developer, I think I can make a runtime version that
could be used without actually having the FileMaker app. I haven't done that
before so let me look at the package and see what the limitations are.
Tim


matt barkdull wrote:

> I'll look for that, I just happened to get FMP 5 the other day.
>
> What about someone who does not have FMP though?
>
> >Unless I'm missing something, you can do this using the Retrospect
> >Event Handler and the FMP template that is included with Retrospect.
> >
> >The event handler passes most of the relevant raw data to the the
> >FMP database, and then you can have the database massage the data
> >into whatever fashion you want. The only issue I've run into appears
> >to be a discrepancy between the MB/s reported in the log and the
> >MB/s calculated from the database data. Since I just use the
> >database to rack growth trends, it's never been a big enough issue
> >for me to reconcile (could just be that I can't 2 + 2 properly :) ).
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Re: Space

[matt barkdull]

I'll look for that, I just happened to get FMP 5 the other day.

What about someone who does not have FMP though?



>Unless I'm missing something, you can do this using the Retrospect 
>Event Handler and the FMP template that is included with Retrospect.
>
>The event handler passes most of the relevant raw data to the the 
>FMP database, and then you can have the database massage the data 
>into whatever fashion you want. The only issue I've run into appears 
>to be a discrepancy between the MB/s reported in the log and the 
>MB/s calculated from the database data. Since I just use the 
>database to rack growth trends, it's never been a big enough issue 
>for me to reconcile (could just be that I can't 2 + 2 properly :) ).
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>Michael Gainessnail mail: Learning Technology Center
>Computer System Administrator Box 45, GPC
>   Nashville, TN 37203
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   (615) 322-2480
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>Machiavelli:
>"... there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous
>to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead
>in the introduction of a new order of things."
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Re: Space

[Michael Gaines]

At 12:02 PM -0500 on 1/30/2001, you wrote:
>Here is another thought, could someone out there right a little app that would
>parse this data and get it into excel or FileMaker from the actual log file.
>Maybe it would go good with an Apple script that would do this once a night.
>FileMaker can handle applescript fairly well.
>I would think this would be fairly easy since the data from the log file is in
>the same format every time. The parser could look for a certain phrase then
>strip the data following (user name and amount of data, date whatever) Then an
>applescript could import that file into a FileMaker database that 
>you could sort
>according to whatever criteria you want. It would be an extra app that would
>have to be on the machine but it sure would be handy.
>Anyone have the expertise to build something like this??  I could handle the
>applescript and the FMP database (as are a lot of you probably) but 
>I'm not good
>at writing code. I'd be glad to team up with someone.
>Tim
>
>
>matt barkdull wrote:
>
>>  Ok, here's a feature request that I've been looking around in Retrospect...
>>
>>  An easy way to find out how much was backed up off of a certain
>>  client without having to add up all the backup numbers in the log.
>>
>>  Meaning, a week ago I started a new backup.   It did a full backup
>>  over the weekend and then incrementals every night.
>>
>>  After wading through the log,  I was able to add up the first backup
>>  of one client along with the 5 incrementals and get the total backed
>>  up from that client.
>>
>>  I'd like to see charting and such.   Something that will make graphs
>>  would be nice, but if it just pumped out raw numbers that I could
>>  move into Excel that would be good too.
>>
>  > What would I like to see?   A raw format of:

Unless I'm missing something, you can do this using the Retrospect 
Event Handler and the FMP template that is included with Retrospect.

The event handler passes most of the relevant raw data to the the FMP 
database, and then you can have the database massage the data into 
whatever fashion you want. The only issue I've run into appears to be 
a discrepancy between the MB/s reported in the log and the MB/s 
calculated from the database data. Since I just use the database to 
rack growth trends, it's never been a big enough issue for me to 
reconcile (could just be that I can't 2 + 2 properly :) ).
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Re: Space

[Tim David]

Here is another thought, could someone out there right a little app that would
parse this data and get it into excel or FileMaker from the actual log file.
Maybe it would go good with an Apple script that would do this once a night.
FileMaker can handle applescript fairly well.
I would think this would be fairly easy since the data from the log file is in
the same format every time. The parser could look for a certain phrase then
strip the data following (user name and amount of data, date whatever) Then an
applescript could import that file into a FileMaker database that you could sort
according to whatever criteria you want. It would be an extra app that would
have to be on the machine but it sure would be handy.
Anyone have the expertise to build something like this??  I could handle the
applescript and the FMP database (as are a lot of you probably) but I'm not good
at writing code. I'd be glad to team up with someone.
Tim


matt barkdull wrote:

> Ok, here's a feature request that I've been looking around in Retrospect...
>
> An easy way to find out how much was backed up off of a certain
> client without having to add up all the backup numbers in the log.
>
> Meaning, a week ago I started a new backup.   It did a full backup
> over the weekend and then incrementals every night.
>
> After wading through the log,  I was able to add up the first backup
> of one client along with the 5 incrementals and get the total backed
> up from that client.
>
> I'd like to see charting and such.   Something that will make graphs
> would be nice, but if it just pumped out raw numbers that I could
> move into Excel that would be good too.
>
> What would I like to see?   A raw format of:
>
> For Each machine:
>
> machine name
> MB Backed up over the course of several nights.  (Full backup + Incrementals)
> Number of backups (how many incrementals actually took place).
> Performance
> Total time taken (Full + incrementals)
>
> It would look something like this and could be imported into Excel
>
> sebulba2580  5  157 MB/Min 00:16:43
> anakin 3260  5  107 MB/Min 00:30:46
>
> See, in reports, as far as I can see, it only tells you how much the
> last backup backed up.  So that would be the last incremental only.
>
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