Squeezing data out of Legato Networker

June 1, 2007 11:15 AM

Help me graph the amount of data I'm backing up!

We're using Legato Networker 7.2.x and over the past few months, it seems that the amount of data being backed up has increased. I'm using more tapes and it seems like I'm spending 4-6 hours a week mucking around with backups alone.

I'm wondering if any of you hivemind dwellers are familiar with this product and are aware of any ways to get some useful reporting out of it. I have searched Google to no avail.

I have both the Solaris xwindows GUI and the Windows GUI available to me.

(Any tips for making life with Networker easier are also welcome!)

posted by drstein to computers & internet (3 comments total)

Well, if you are on a Unix box, can't you analyze the logs (I'm assuming this software provides them, I've never worked with it) with sed/awk and then plot it with gnuplot or maybe R?
posted by Loto at 1:26 PM on June 1, 2007

I'm just stopping by to extoll the virtues of backing up to disk, if you have the hardware. My mucking time has dramatically reduced since switching to a snapshot based disk backup system. Still dump to tape periodically, but frustration fueled tape drive rage has dramatically decreased.
posted by Area Control at 5:34 PM on June 1, 2007

Area: can't do it, won't do it. Too many SOX controls in place that would make it an unmanagable nightmare.

Loto: The logs are unfortunately pretty darn sparse. We thought about that before.

Oh well. :(
posted by drstein at 9:50 PM on June 2, 2007