Data Stored in Avamar

If you have Avamar version 6.0 SP1, then there is supposed to be a report in there which can tell you that. I am not at that level yet, so I can’t validate that.

But so far, this question has been asked many times, and answer every time has been, there is no way to get this information.

Ahmed Jalal

TekSystems

Contractor to Marathon Oil Company

Enterprise Infrastructure - Core

5555 San Felipe, Houston, TX. 77056

O: 713-296-2118

C: 713-553-0198

ajalal@marathonoil.com

For a client, in the AVAMAR MANAGEMENT CONSOLE COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (MCCLI) 5.0 • PROGRAMMER GUIDE, located the command backup show

The mccli backup show command returns all backups currently stored on the

Avamar server for the specified client.

Synopsis

mccli backup show

--name=STRING

Global Options

Refer to Global Options (page 24) for a list of GLOBAL-OPTIONS common to all

mccli commands.

Command Options

--after=STRING Used with --before to specify a range of

backups dates to return.

STRING must be in the format of YYYY-MMDD,

where YYYY is the four-digit year, MM is

the two-digit calendar month and DD is the

two-digit day of the month.

--before=STRING Used with --after to specify a range of

backups dates to return.

STRING must be in the format of YYYY-MMDD,

where YYYY is the four-digit year, MM is

the two-digit calendar month and DD is the

two-digit day of the month.

--dir=STRING(/) Specifies initial directory of the backup from

which to begin listing files and folders

(directories).

--domain=STRING(/) Specifies Avamar server domain containing

the client specified by the --name argument.

--labelNum=INTEGER Specifies a particular backup for which to

show information.

--name=STRING Specifies client from which to show backups.

This argument is required.

IMPORTANT: If a fully-qualified client name

(for example, /clients/MyClient) is supplied,

the --domain argument is ignored.

--recursive=BOOLEAN(false) If set true, backup files and folders

(directories) are recursively shown.

--retention=STRING If supplied, only backups with the specified

retention types are returned.

STRING must be one or more of the following:

• D or daily

• W or weekly

• M or monthly

• Y or yearly

• N or none

Both short form and long form retention type

values are allowed and can be mixed. For

example, all of the following are valid:

--retention=D,weekly

--retention=none

--retention=Daily,W,monthly

--verbose=BOOLEAN(false) If set true, detailed (verbose) information is

returned.

Event Codes:

22236 Client does not exist.

22504 Failed to retrieve the backups for a client.

Mark Bellows

Correction to above post:

Synopsis

mccli backup show Re: Data Stored in Avamar Re: Data Stored in Avamar

Re: Data Stored in Avamar Re: Data Stored in Avamar Re: Data Stored in Avamar

--name=STRING Re: Data Stored in Avamar Re: Data Stored in Avamar

Re: Data Stored in Avamar Re: Data Stored in Avamar

should be:

 

Synopsis

mccli backup show [GLOBAL-OPTIONS] [--after=STRING --before=STRING]

[--dir=STRING(/)] [--domain=STRING(/)] [--labelNum=INTEGER]

--name=STRING [--recursive=BOOLEAN(false)] [--retention=STRING]

[--verbose=BOOLEAN(false)] [DISPLAY-OPTIONS]

Not sure what happened - I replied using email - seems to have getten messed up.

Mark

I just ran a report on the 6.0.1.65 admin console (not sure what version this corresponds to on the grid)

Tools-Manage Reports-New Report – Report View and Settings – Backend Capcity

I select one client and got a certain capacity and then a list of clients and got a total. It does not appear the report can be configured to list the size used per client.

I selected 15 laptop clients and it took about 2-3 minutes to run (console warns you about the high resources needed to run the report).  Total capacity listed in the report for that 15 machine list…

Backend Capacity Used: 52.5 GB

I did 2 computers that only have 1 backup each.

Comp #1

1. 9.9gb in the backend report.  Session stats –

bytes_modified_sent	13,832,302,412
bytes_new	13,832,302,412
Comp #2 3.8gb in the backend report bytes_new 3,175,910,853

I tested one with 7 backup sessions.

Backup #	bytes_new	Total bytes
1	4,217,420,121	10,899,329,024
2	18,256,079	10,997,410,816
3	1,730,154	10,998,386,688
4	1,684,504	10,998,721,536
5	13,883,001	11,127,173,120
6	7,781,125	11,139,991,552
7	1,550,667	11,141,182,464
	4,262,305,651
Backend report	4.4gb

And then finally, a machine with backups removed via garbage collection.

Backup #	total	Bytes New
30	38,924,677,120	6,189,480
40	39,429,083,136	12,404,242
41	39,450,976,256	4,540,627
42	39,498,952,704	34,972,941
43	39,564,787,712	15,886,152
44	39,588,433,920	10,170,417
45	39,799,136,256	28,340,961
46	39,804,170,240	9,156,782
47	39,827,021,824	7,399,945
48	39,861,948,416	32,290,203
49	39,878,942,720	22,080,883
50	39,921,352,704	40,895,137
Backend Report	14.3gb
Bytes New total for all sessions	224,327,770