Amount of data..

[warlock0199]

Good day everybody.

I dont think that this question will be a problem for all the experts, so here it go's....

When I run the following command:
C:\>mminfo -X -q "savetime >10/01/03, savetime < 10/30/03"

I get the following output:
Save Set Type Summary:
1725 save sets 2113053 files 1225/ss 5186GB 3006 MB/ss 2454 KB/file
1645 full 2088591 files 1269/ss 5062 GB 3077 MB/ss 2424 KB/file
80 incremental 24462 files 306/ss 124 GB 1550 MB/ss 5072 KB/file
0 intermediate
0 ad-hoc
0 archive
0 migration
2 empty
913 purged 824658 files 903/ss 4721 GB 5171 MB/ss 5725 KB/file
831 index 707750 files 851/ss 187 GB 226 MB/ss 265 KB/file
22 incomplete 154635 files 7029/ss 166 GB 7559 MB/ss 1075 KB/file

24% of full files per incremental
61% of files are on-line

Does this mean that in October 2003 the server backed up 5186GB? If not what does it mean?

 

[605]

Reading the mminfo manpage, the info is not very clear. And as i do not know your
system, i do not know that you have really backed up. However, you could just run
mminfo -X by itself and verify the result.

 

[warlock0199]

But I need to know what amount was backed up a few months ago. The mminfo -X command only shows me the amount that was backed up for the past month, right?

Management wants to know what is the data growth over the last few months.

Is there any other way to find this out?

 

[DavinaTreiber]

mminfo isn't going to help you with historical totals, since it only shows save sets that are still in the media database now, and of course a lot of the older save sets will now have been recycled. The only way you'll be able to get this information retrospectively is by writing a script to parse the log files (if you still have them) and adding up the totals of every save set logged.

 

[605]

to warlock ...

Remember your question? "Does this mean that in October 2003 the server backed
up 5186GB? If not what does it mean?"

I was trying to help you on this issue. As i could not do it directly, i tried that
indirectly.


With respect to what you really want, NetWorker is not very well supporting you in this
respect - NW Administration/Mgmt. Console should be able to do this much better. However, there
is a way but this is a two step process:

- run mminfo -q "time_window, ..." -r sumsize(20) > file
- now summarize all entries with a tiny little program

The result will be precise to the byte. Do not forget that you might need to adjust
the field length of sumzize(x) .

 

[warlock0199]

Great stuff. Thanx.

I will try it and let you know.

 

[eskolnik]

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