Routine Data Movement Operations Reports

The degree of success in the completion of scheduled group backups, group cloning, and archive operations is reported to you by the savegrp program through a savegroup completion report. (This report is the action invoked by the preconfigured notification called Savegroup Completion.) The report is emailed to root and sent to the log file in /nsr/logs/messages. The report consolidates the following information:

• The success or failure of each save set participating in the operation

• The operation's save date and time

• The bootstrap ssid

• The bootstrap volume location (volume name, starting record number, and ending record number)

A second report, sent to the Backup server's designated default printer, repeats the bootstrap information as hard copy, which you should keep on-hand in a secure location. (This printed report is the action invoked by the preconfigured notification called Bootstrap.) Disaster recovery is much easier to perform if you have access to the bootstrap information in the most recent printed report.

Backup provides the nsrinfo program, which enables you to query the contents of the Backup client file index. (Appendix B, Command Line Reference Utilities describes the most commonly used nsrinfo commands and options.)

Backup also provides the nsrwatch program, which enables you to use a character-based interface to monitor Backup activity as it occurs.