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Recent content by iamwhitey

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    Quick way to show clients in a group?

    mminfo -r client -q "group=YourGroupNameHere
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    Legato Networker Server Migration

    well the time came and we were able to bring the system backup over on the linux system using the mmrecov command with no problems. Currently the only problem is Red Hat working with the drives. but the application side everything was smooth.
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    How to exclude directories for the Legato Networker backup

    Have you tried creating a directive to use for exclusion?
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    Legato Networker Server Migration

    Yes i guess that would be a problem. So I guess the best solution would be to put in the new server and reindex the server. am i correct? How long does a reindex take on say 350 clients?
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    Legato Networker Server Migration

    Currently we are running Networker on a Solaris Server. Well that server is getting up in years and needs replaced. We decided to bail on Sun and migrate to a kickass dell server running Red Hat. I realize cross platform migrations are not supported by Legato. Has anyone migrated from...
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    Your opinion on Clones

    yeah i am not asking how to do it, I know how to do it. I want to know people opinions on the differences of cloning processes. What does everyone else do? What have they found that works better?
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    Your opinion on Clones

    I am not quite sure what gave you the idea that i was using multiple nodes, but for futher clarification I am using only one node. here is my logic. So there are scripts on the Legato server that start the clones and tell it what SSID's to clone. A clone is a copy of the full backup from a...
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    Your opinion on Clones

    Currently Clones are run for my company by scripts written years ago that I just adopted when i took over the backup system. The scripts are pretty basic and work decent. Now i am condidering changing clones away from these scripts. We only have 5 customers that get off site clones so its not...
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    Need a report of amount backed up per client.

    well you are asking for something pretty broad... mminfo is powerful and you can use that for reporting. here is an example query that I use to send out to customers for their daily report. mminfo -c client_name_goes_here -t yesterday -r...
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    Code I wrote to make life easier for reporting data totals per group

    I thought this might help out some people, here is a perl script I wrote to retrieve the group name and data totals for a certain time period. It then emails it out to the address you specify as an excel spread sheet. enjoy! [code] #!/usr/bin/perl # # AUTHOR: John White # # # PURPOSE: #...
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    How to create reports

    excellent I will talk to them about that, it could be beneficial to the company. thanks!
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    How to create reports

    another question, is there a way to easily report on a storage node... find out whats on it, find out how much space it consumes. we have a main storage node then a secondary at a remote location and i trying to see whats all on the remote location thanks for your help
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    How to create reports

    alrighty i am understanding the basics of doing a search using mminfo mminfo -xc, -r'client,name, totalsize(15),sscomp(22)' -q 'group=Cleveland,!incomplete,savetime>=last week' > cleveland.txt this would give me a decent report... is there anyway to summarize the client? ie only have one...
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    How to create reports

    Hello and welcome, I am a noob to the board and Legato Systems. I just recently took over a position that is responsible for doing the backups. The person before was fired so I have very few people I can ask questions too.. I am hoping this board is able to help me, and so far it has. Now for...

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