Visualizing the NetBackup Environment...
This is a big pet-peeve I have with NetBackup. It is currently extremely difficult to visualize the schedule environment. A few other idea postings here list some interesting problems, but few list a good way to solve it.
I have an idea that could help. Under the “Summary of All Policies” create a new “Schedule Visualization” section. Place in a calendar view that can be selected by day , week, month, or year. Also set a pop down java calendar to select whatever day you want. This is Java 101 class stuff, so it should be easy for your programmers to implement.
Then down the left had side, have all the policies with +/- sign that expands to the schedules within each policy. The top is the time line (time of day, days, weeks, etc.). Bars for each schedule will allow you to easily see what schedules overlap others. Color code the bars for different schedule types.
This should be an easy way to visualize the information.
Jason Voyles
Disaster Recovery Analyst
Eli Lilly Inc.
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If this goes through, I'd
If this goes through, I'd like to see a way to expand/collapse all policies then in that section, as well as the ability to filter which policies actually show up in there in the first place. =)
- "Your backups are only as good as your restores."
Have my vote on this.
Have my vote on this. Anything to help plan backups and see your schedules from 10,000 feet please!
Here's hoping NetBackup 7.0 has some goodies - the OpsCenter looks the most intriguing in the context of this.
NetBackup 7.0 Features:
** OpsCenter – Unified management and reporting
Open Storage - Client Direct
NetBackup Deduplication Option
Integrated client based Deduplication
Integrated media server based Deduplication
Installation Improvements
Oracle Cloning
Simplified Authentication installation and configuration
EOL Windows 2000 Client support
NetBackup 7.0 Proliferations:
Sybase 11
Windows VC8 Upgrade
BMR Support for WINPE 2.1
EV 8.0
Windows 7/W2008R2 Client
Exchange 14
HyperV 2.0
VMWare vSphere
Add HPUX 11.31 IA BMR Master Server for NBU 7
W2008 R2 Server Support
Java GUI on RHEL 5
Tip: Get overview/document your NBU environment. Run 'nbsu' and review the output.
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Datasheet
I use Excell (or Linux simular)
Just a Control C and control V over a datasheet
than I put some filters
I think that is very usefull
I have built an script that show the average elapsed time of all policies than I put it as a %% of a day.
we have 7 drives here, so I create a datasheet with 7 lines each representing one drive. an the columns representing hours
Claudio Veronezi Mendes
EMC TA - Pre Sales at Compwire
Londrina - Pr - Brazil
I was Trying to Figure Out How to Word This Myself
Great suggestion! It's hard to schedule backups when you can't see the whole picture. I usually wind up with Tuesday backups being so massive that I get error 196 a lot.
I think this can be done at different levels. First, we should be able to put out schedules on a nice calendar view. Another thing would be to let us use this same calendar view to schedule new policies. That is, don't give us a blank calendar to do calendar scheduling. Have other jobs there and, maybe even show holidays. On another level, what I'd really like is to say, these are the servers I want to back up, I want weekly full backups for these and incrementals, maybe monthly for another group, then I want to vault weekly with duplication to offsite. And then, click a button and let Netbackup figure it all out. Of couse, it would need estimated bytes and times for each backup and can adjust the schedule accordingly. Of course, there should be no evidence to anyone this is happening so we can look good and earn the big bucks...
Maybe I should also suggest that NetBackup support large-format printers/plotters so we can print the schedule/calendar on wall size posters!
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