First, tell me if I understood it right. Example: You have a client with a C:\Files directory, that you back up everyday, then you want to know, from a given day, which files are from which user, based on the owner of the file.
It would be something doable if you had the files' permissions in nsrinfo's output, but even using verbose mode (-vV), you don't have that. So it seems that recover is the only tool that will show you this, which makes things harder.
I would rather try a different approach then trying to get this report you want. Splitting group of users to different directories, each one being a different saveset would be one of the options here.
With mminfo you get daily figures, but only per saveset. Thus if you would have savesets split in a way you do your calculations that would be the way to go.
Index data is kept db too, but viewed via nsrinfo command. So, if you do not have savesets you can use it means you need to calculate this for each ssid and then check index db against nsavetime for path you are after and sum size values you get.
I have 25000 users, spread over dozens of disks, and multiple fileservers. I want the users to control (by using a .nsr-file) , and pay for, the amount of data that gets backed up.
For each user, I need to report how much data he/she owns on the saveset.
I can not put each user onto a separate fileset.
nsrinfo can give me information on which files that was backed onto a saveset, and the size, but I cant get the owner that way. By keeping track of which filesets that are active, I can add the tape usage.
I see, so different users will use same space - meaning nsrinfo is not of use - is that what you are saying? In that case you are out of luck I believe.
Usually you would have area for each user so it would easy to get data for each user by parsing specific path...
dpinink_silva
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February 15th, 2008 02:00
It would be something doable if you had the files' permissions in nsrinfo's output, but even using verbose mode (-vV), you don't have that. So it seems that recover is the only tool that will show you this, which makes things harder.
I would rather try a different approach then trying to get this report you want. Splitting group of users to different directories, each one being a different saveset would be one of the options here.
ble1
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February 15th, 2008 02:00
Index data is kept db too, but viewed via nsrinfo command. So, if you do not have savesets you can use it means you need to calculate this for each ssid and then check index db against nsavetime for path you are after and sum size values you get.
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February 15th, 2008 04:00
I want the users to control (by using a .nsr-file) , and pay for, the amount of data that gets backed up.
For each user, I need to report how much data he/she owns on the saveset.
I can not put each user onto a separate fileset.
nsrinfo can give me information on which files that was backed onto a saveset, and the size, but I cant get the owner that way. By keeping track of which filesets that are active, I can add the tape usage.
ble1
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February 15th, 2008 05:00
Usually you would have area for each user so it would easy to get data for each user by parsing specific path...
bse2
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February 15th, 2008 05:00
Users come, users go, they put files in 'interesting' places.
There are different pathnames on the servers (Windows, Mac, Unix*) which means that the parser will be complex. The usernames are however in synch.
I want to do all this on the backup-server, which doesn't know anything of the structure on the clients.
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