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Good morning everyone,
Currently after a backup we have an email sent to us for each group with detailed information for each client within the group. For example group1 has client 1, client 2, and client 3. Client 1 and 3 comepleted successfully but client 2 failed. The current report looks like this:

NetWorker savegroup: (alert) group1 completed, Total 3 client(s), 1 Failed,2 Succeeded. Please see group completion details for more information.

Failed: client2

Succeeded: client1, client3

Start time: Mon Jun 4 23:00:14 2012
End time: Mon Jun 4 23:17:09 2012


--- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---

* client2:/oracle/ 1 retry attempted
client2:/oracle/: No full backups of this save set were found in the media database; performing a full backup
* client2:/oracle/ /oracle/: No such file or directory
* <ERROR> : Failed with error(s)

--- Successful Save Sets ---
* client1:Probe savefs client1: succeeded.
client1: /oracle level=5, 68 MB 00:03:10 600 files
client1: /etc/ level=5, 0 KB 00:01:00 0 files


--- Successful Save Sets ---
* client3:Probe savefs client1: succeeded.
client3: /oracle level=5, 68 MB 00:03:10 600 files
client3: /etc/ level=5, 0 KB 00:01:00 0 files

I am looking for a way to get this exact same info using nsrinfo or any other way you can think of. currently we have a need to look at our emails for at least 12+ months but we do not want to keep our emails that long as it takes up space on the exchange backup (we're also limited to our number of emails). Any help is much appreciated! Thanks.

Hello,
If I understand right you want to get the backup success and failure report using nsrinfo ? If so, nsrinfo is usually used to list the index for a backup and is present only for successful backups. If you are searching for a report like the one you have provided below, I would suggest you to look for savegrp.log under /nsr/logs.

HTH,
Rovin A. D'Souza

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] On Behalf Of Vygur
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 8:25 PM
To: NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: [Networker] Getting history with nsrinfo??

Good morning everyone,
Currently after a backup we have an email sent to us for each group with detailed information for each client within the group. For example group1 has client 1, client 2, and client 3. Client 1 and 3 comepleted successfully but client 2 failed. The current report looks like this:

NetWorker savegroup: (alert) group1 completed, Total 3 client(s), 1 Failed,2 Succeeded. Please see group completion details for more information.

Failed: client2

Succeeded: client1, client3

Start time: Mon Jun 4 23:00:14 2012
End time: Mon Jun 4 23:17:09 2012


--- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---

* client2:/oracle/ 1 retry attempted
client2:/oracle/: No full backups of this save set were found in the media database; performing a full backup
* client2:/oracle/ /oracle/: No such file or directory
* <ERROR> : Failed with error(s)

--- Successful Save Sets ---
* client1:Probe savefs client1: succeeded.
client1: /oracle level=5, 68 MB 00:03:10 600 files
client1: /etc/ level=5, 0 KB 00:01:00 0 files


--- Successful Save Sets ---
* client3:Probe savefs client1: succeeded.
client3: /oracle level=5, 68 MB 00:03:10 600 files
client3: /etc/ level=5, 0 KB 00:01:00 0 files

I am looking for a way to get this exact same info using nsrinfo or any other way you can think of. currently we have a need to look at our emails for at least 12+ months but we do not want to keep our emails that long as it takes up space on the exchange backup (we're also limited to our number of emails). Any help is much appreciated! Thanks.

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Hi Rovinabi,
We were thinking about that as well - however the issue with the logs is they're managed by our sys admin team and they rotate them out every 30 days. We could request for a 1 year retention of those logs, however we want to try to explore the avenue of using mminfo/nsrinfo first and not rely on the log files. Is this possible in any way at all?

You have to basically understand the user of nsrinfo and mminfo. Nsrinfo is used to query the catalog files and mminfo is used to query the media database. The Media database and the nsrinfo have information regarding only the successful backups (Yes, mminfo will give you information regarding the savesets that were initiated but not completed). Thus, to get a complete picture of the backups status/report logs can be your best friend, but again you can use the NMC reports as well but it would give you a complete picture though.

Rovin A. D'Souza
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] On Behalf Of Vygur
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 9:00 PM
To: NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: [Networker] Getting history with nsrinfo??

Hi Rovinabi,
We were thinking about that as well - however the issue with the logs is they're managed by our sys admin team and they rotate them out every 30 days. We could request for a 1 year retention of those logs, however we want to try to explore the avenue of using mminfo/nsrinfo first and not rely on the log files. Is this possible in any way at all?

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In regard to: [Networker] Getting history with nsrinfo??, Vygur said (at...:

We were thinking about that as well - however the issue with the logs
is they're managed by our sys admin team and they rotate them out
every 30 days. We could request for a 1 year retention of those logs,
however we want to try to explore the avenue of using mminfo/nsrinfo
first and not rely on the log files. Is this possible in any way at
all?

Not with either of those commands, no.

If you don't want to store the information in email and you don't want to
ask the admins to extend the log file retention, where do you want the
information kept? In NetWorker itself? It doesn't do that, so you're
going to be forced to keep it somewhere else.

Note that what it's currently sending to you via email is just one of
many different types of notifications. You can create your own and
you can modify the existing ones. Perhaps you want to modify the
notification so that the information is instead inserted into a database
or written to a flat file that you keep elsewhere.

Either way, though, if you want this information kept long-term, you'll
need to find some method of retaining it.

Tim
--
Tim Mooney Tim.Mooney < at > ndsu.edu
Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice)
Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax)
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164

You should check out and obtain ,install a copy of Networker Reporting
Utility from Thierry Faidherbe (Thierry.faidherbe<at>forem.be) , it
builds and maintains its own database of detailed backup history that it
collects daily from the Networker databases.. It offers lots of detailed
reports that NMC cannot produce... It can be configured to keep data
history as long as you want it to... It is the best Networker reporting
tool I've seen hands down... search the list for it, or drop him an
e-mail for the current download locations...

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] On
Behalf Of Vygur
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 11:30 AM
To: NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: [Networker] Getting history with nsrinfo??

Hi Rovinabi,
We were thinking about that as well - however the issue with the logs
is they're managed by our sys admin team and they rotate them out every
30 days. We could request for a 1 year retention of those logs, however
we want to try to explore the avenue of using mminfo/nsrinfo first and
not rely on the log files. Is this possible in any way at all?

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Thank you everyone for your feedback.

Bytes2go: unfortunately our company will not install freeware or any product that is not supported by the vendor directly. We do have DPA installed, though none of us have been truly trained on it yet to know its capabilities...

I have to agree with you Paul. Thierry's Networker Reporter is hands down the best Networker utility I have ever used. He is always available for help and he even provides scripts that can be modified to do exactly what you want.

Matt Powell
Storage Administrator
Clemson University
CCIT
(864) 656-0589 (office)
(864) 247-2823 (cell)


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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] On Behalf Of Goslin, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 1:04 PM
To: NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Getting history with nsrinfo??

You should check out and obtain ,install a copy of Networker Reporting
Utility from Thierry Faidherbe (Thierry.faidherbe<at>forem.be) , it
builds and maintains its own database of detailed backup history that it
collects daily from the Networker databases.. It offers lots of detailed
reports that NMC cannot produce... It can be configured to keep data
history as long as you want it to... It is the best Networker reporting
tool I've seen hands down... search the list for it, or drop him an
e-mail for the current download locations...

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] On
Behalf Of Vygur
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 11:30 AM
To: NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: [Networker] Getting history with nsrinfo??

Hi Rovinabi,
We were thinking about that as well - however the issue with the logs
is they're managed by our sys admin team and they rotate them out every
30 days. We could request for a 1 year retention of those logs, however
we want to try to explore the avenue of using mminfo/nsrinfo first and
not rely on the log files. Is this possible in any way at all?

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That's too bad... It's your companies loss.
They have no logical 'reason' not to install proven freeware other than
'policy'. Working for one of the worlds' oldest software companies
(since 1968) , we've always used whatever tools that get the job done
(maybe why we've been around this long?)

It has never required support in the 5+ years I've been using it, and
the author WILL help you if you have any problems free of charge... So
it is supported in a way, just not 'officially'... Just because it's
free does not mean it's a risk and not worth using.. After all, the
entire internet is built and runs on 'freeware' ...

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] On
Behalf Of Vygur
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 2:22 PM
To: NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: [Networker] Getting history with nsrinfo??

Thank you everyone for your feedback.

Bytes2go: unfortunately our company will not install freeware or any
product that is not supported by the vendor directly. We do have DPA
installed, though none of us have been truly trained on it yet to know
its capabilities...

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