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Netting Out NetBackup

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Basic Backup Reporting
Joe Pfeiffer | 29 Jan 2008 | 1 comment

I was trying to think of which crazy-cool complex report I could post on the blog but it dawned on me that there is a lot of power in just the simple reports. So that's where I'll start. Here's a dead simple report that simply shows how much you've backed up each day for the last month. Think of it as the report that you want everyone in IT to have so if you were to stop someone in the hallway and ask "how much data did we backup last night?" They would have the answer at the tip of their tongue. Sounds simple enough but if you really dig down there is a lot of complexity under this report. You’re environment may be several backup domains (NBU Masters), thousands of clients, dozens of applications, multiple geographies, and so on. But here all that stuff is one simple blue bar for each day.

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A startup in the NetBackup platform
Joe Pfeiffer | 14 Jan 2008 | 2 comments

When I got out of school at the University of Minnesota a few years ago I had a bunch of friends that went off to California where they worked for dot com’s or other little startups.  Some were successful, others not.  Almost all of my friends though thought I was crazy for becoming an engineer on a piece of software that used predominately tape drives for storage at the time (and this was 2004).  For a long time I was forced to explain how modern tape media had larger capacity or faster streaming write speeds than hard disks.  Luckily NetBackup 6.5 has changed that with all its disk features so now I spend my time explaining what neat things we can do with disk.

But that’s not why I’m writing.  A couple of months ago I made a move from NetBackup to Veritas Backup Reporter.  VBR (the name most people refer to Backup Reporter as) has been a result of several internal projects and external products but is largely based on a...

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