Thanks everyone for all the valuable suggestions -- I found the below command
which was what exactly I was looking for -
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist -l -d 08/19/07 -e 09/19/07 | grep
FRAG | awk ' { tot+=3D$4 } END { printf "%d\n",tot }'
Thanks Again,
Smitha
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:01 AM
To: Pillapalem, Smitha; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Amount of data
>Don't completely dismiss or accept a product just based on what others have
>said - test it yourself.
One reason to test yourself is that the products are constantly changing (and
hopefully improving). When I did my head-to-head testing, it was over 3 years
ago. Although one product won handily at the time, that doesn't mean that it
still will - there's no way for me to know how well it will work in my
environment without doing the tests again and I have no reason to do so.
When you evaluate the products, you should also look at the vendor's
relationship with Symantec and how fast each responds to new releases. In
fact, now would be a good time to ask whether they support NetBackup 6.5 or
not, even if you're not at 6.5 yet. You want to be assured that they'll
support the new releases before you're ready to upgrade to them.
Some products take different approaches than others so they'll work better in
some environments than others. Make sure that the product you buy is the right
fit for you and not necessarily for somebody else.
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:19 PM
To: Ed Wilts; Pillapalem, Smitha; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Amount of data
The first thing I would say is to use bpimagelist with the appropriate flags.
It goes as far back as you have images, and can be told to list particular
types of backups. One of the fields is size.
I agree that if you want historical reporting, it's easiest if you get a
commercial reporting product. There are a number of such products on the
market, and they offer some really good functionality that's really hard to get
otherwise. The following is a listing of them, alphabetical by product name.
(I keep a directory of them and a bunch of other backup-related products at
http://www.backupcentral.com/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Category:Backup_Software_Directories
.)
www.tek-tools.com <http://www.tek-tools.com/> (BackupProfiler)
www.agite.com <http://www.agite.com/> (Backup Visual)
<http://www.bocada.com/> www.bocada.com (Bocada)
<http://www.servergraph.com/> www.servergraph.com (Servergraph)
<http://www.aptare.com/> www.aptare.com (Storage Console)
www.symantec.com <http://www.symantec.com/> (The new Veritas Backup Reporter,
not to be confused with NOM.)
www.wysdm.com <http://www.wysdm.com/> (WysDM for Backups, also resold by EMC)
I would suggest that you decide what you want out of a reporting product first,
then take a look at all of these to see which one best fit your needs. Feel
free to search the Backup Central forums ( http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2
) for these product names to see what others have said over time. Take all
comments with a grain of salt; however, there are a few shills out there.
Don't completely dismiss or accept a product just based on what others have
said - test it yourself.
---
W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:46 PM
To: 'Pillapalem, Smitha'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Amount of data
If you want history for the last few days, it's not that tough. If you want
long-term history, you'll need a reporting product. NOM is free although
limited. Commercial products like Aptare's StorageConsole are far more
featured and can give you relatively instant reports over long periods - just
today I was generating weekly totals for the last year and the reports were
popping up in seconds and we run a lot of backup jobs every day.
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pillapalem,
Smitha
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Amount of data
Hi all,
How do I get the information on amount of data getting backed up in my current
environment for both weekly fulls and daily incremental -
Thanks,
Smitha
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