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Predicting required media 3

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kuedm

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Jun 28, 2006
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We've been getting a lot of error 96 (no media available) which is something quite easily preventable. Put more tapes in!!

Problem is my admins are guessing as to how many blank tapes will be needed for any given night.

I have a solution in mind which will look at past use, data growth etc to make this guessing more reliable.

But to start I need a simple script to tell me how many tapes where used on a given day.

I've tried the following command where I try to list all media written to on Sept 9, 2006. But the output shows dates up to the current date Sept 11.

bpimagelist -U -media -d 09/10/06 -e 10/10/06

Is there a better method?
 
Media Written Report
The Media Written report identifies volumes that were used for backups within the specified time period.
# cd /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
# ./bpimagelist -A -media [-d <start_date> <start_time> -e <end_date> <end_time>]



Bob Stump
Just because the VERITAS documentation states a certain thing does not make it a fact and that is truth.
 
As well as the media written report you can view dates that media was written to/assigned from the NBU console. Select Media and Device Management then select Media. This will list all media currently in use/circulation (that has not yet expired). Once expired the time assigned will be blank.

Northy.
 
Thanks creakyjoe,
In the link you posted I saw a term "uniqur file". I've never seen that term before. What's it mean?
 
..neither have i, it means i can't spell for toffee :)

..it should have said unique file
 
Too funny...if you do a web search on uniqur you will actually find stuff under that name.

Cheers
 
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