NetBackup

NetBackup is a computer backup system that around the time I got trained on it was being sold by Veritas Inc., although it's currently owned and operated by Symantec. It's been a while since I've had to do any backup administration but since we got rid of our tape library with the recalcitrant robot I'm now digging into NetBackup again.

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How I roll

Currently we run NetBackup Enterprise 5.0 on Windows 2007, although I'm going to be upgrading to 6.5 in the next couple weeks. Part of my 'Lets get to know NetBackup again' process is to get a working knowledge of our setup and write a few tools so that I can verify the before and after of our system. We have a mix of Mac, Linux and Windows systems of all versions and variety one would expect to find in an enterprise. There's even some Sun in here but we don't back it up as it's all essentially diskless.

bpdbjobs wrapper in python

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bpdbjobs complete error code list

For some reason Symantec hides the error list inside it's 'Troubleshooting' document if you want the full monty, however you can get job information on individual codes by running 'bperror -S <CODE>'. I wrote a little script to automate this for generating a list of all bpdbjobs error codes.