Jonathan,
The reporting option in 6.0 is called NOM and it is included in your 6.0 base license. It will gather information from 5.1 master servers. http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:9U6ha-ZpH2YJ:eval.veritas.com/mktginfo/products/White_Papers/Data_Protection/nbu_6_Technical_Brief_NOM_final.pdf+netbackup+nom&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 8:01 AM To: NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate LOL My Symantec Sales Rep was out here three weeks ago pitching Backup reporter as the way to go in my mixed 6.0 and 5.1 environment. Oh my! -Jonathan ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:33 AM To: rcarlisle; NB List Mail Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate I was told by my netbackup 6.0 instructor not to buy backup reporter because it is built in to 6.0. The backup reporter was for versions below 6. can anyone comment on this? The instructor has been with Symantec for over 9 years and most of them in support. Greg ________________________________ From: rcarlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:28 AM To: Hindle, Greg; 'NB List Mail' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate Greg, Vision is Symantec's big user conference. It is coming up next week in Las Vegas. It is definitely worth attending. If you are looking at reporting tools, I would suggest checking out Aptare and Symantec Backup Reporter. Tools like these can make your reporting life for management much easier. Reneé Carlisle ServerWare Corporation ________________________________ From: Hindle, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:12 AM To: rcarlisle; NB List Mail Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate Thanks. These reports are for monthly metrics and upper management does see them. I was just curious what others are doing to report this info. We don't have any reporting tools in place (yet). You mention Vision? What is this a user conference? Greg ________________________________ From: rcarlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:46 AM To: Hindle, Greg; 'NB List Mail' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate Greg, Great questions. I would say that it depends on the audience. Any reporting tool on the market for NBU today can give you this information in different "slices". Many clients do track this information and it is a great way to get a quick "health check" of the environment. If you are tracking this information for Management, I would speculate they are interested on the % of successful backups you ran and if you are meeting SLA's. High level reports of the number successful vs. the number of backups run should suffice. For their level, you may decide to strip out test backups, backups that were intentionally killed, and backups with multiple attempts. But that may depend on your environment and management. If you are reporting for business units, DBAs, SA's..etc, they primarily care about if their backup ran or not. You would probably want to strip out failed attempts, but you might choose to include a report on backups that should have run but didn't If you are creating a report for yourself or other NBU operators, you probably want to look at multiple attempts. This can help you identify potential issues in your environment that could threaten future success of your backups. I don't know if your going to Vision this year, but there are several sessions on backup reporting you might want to check out. Good Luck Reneé Carlisle ServerWare Corporation ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 8:57 AM To: NB List Mail Subject: [Veritas-bu] calculating backup success rate How does everyone track this? Do you count just total successfully backups vs. the number of attempts? And how do you handle a backup that failed 3 times but ran good on the forth? Greg >>> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the sender. CEG-IP2
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