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NetWorker Sync Cookbook
NetWorker is a Dell EMC backup solution and is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, NetWare, OpenVMS and Unix.
The mminfo command
The mminfo command reports information about NetWorker media and save sets.
To get a report that is suitable for the TapeTrack Sync command, the following minimum arguments should be used:
mminfo -xc, -a -r "volume,barcode,family,type,location,pool" > report.csv
Example mminfo output
volume,barcode,family,type,location,pool 000000L6,000000L6,tape,LTO,Offsite,weekly_full 000001L6,000001L6,tape,LTO,Offsite,weekly_full 000002L6,000002L6,tape,LTO,Offsite,weekly_full 000003L6,000003L6,tape,LTO,Offsite,weekly_full 000004L6,000004L6,tape,LTO,Offsite,weekly_full 000005L6,000005L6,tape,LTO,Offsite,weekly_full 000006L6,000006L6,tape,LTO,Offsite,weekly_full 000007L6,000007L6,tape,LTO,Offsite,weekly_full
Post-processing
You will need to install the TapeTrack Sync software to complete these instructions.
Barcodes
It possible for NetWorker barcodes to be missing the LTO L-Suffix.
It is always recommended that where possible volumes be loaded into TapeTrack with their L-Suffix, and this suffix can be established by:
- The Media ID value if it includes the suffix.
- Adding an appropriate suffix to the Media ID based upon the value of the Media Type field.
- Adding an appropriate suffix based upon the range of the Media ID.
- Using TapeTrack's Constructive Barcode feature.
Synchronization
Synchronization with TapeTrack is performed by calling the TMSS10Sync command line program, along with:
- The CSV file produced by pre-processing the mminfo output.
- Command line arguments that instruct the program how to process volumes.
- A synchronization definition file that instructs the program how to interpret the mminfo output.
Example Command Line Arguments
TMSS10Sync -d NetWorker.ttidef -a -S user:-password@server < report.csv
Where:
-d
is the path to the Synchronization Definition File.-a
tells the program to add new tape volumes if they are encountered.-S
tells the program what server to connect to.Inventory.csv
is themminfo
output file.
Example Synchronization Definition
# # Set the Customer and Media as literal values as they never change # SetLiteral(CUSTOMER, "ACME"); SetLiteral(MEDIA, "LTO"); # # Set the delimiter to a CSV # SetCSVDelimiter(",") # # Skip any line that begins with string barcode (header) AddString(EXCLUSION, 0, "barcode*"); # # Set the Description to the Pool Name # Extract(DESCRIPTION, 6, 20, 0); # # Get the Volume-ID from the report Extract(VOLUME, 1, 8, 0); # #Get the Repository from a translated Pool Name Extract(REPOSITORY, 12, 40, 0); # # Send any volume from the pool **offsite** to OFFS repository, all others to LIBR AddTranslation(REPOSITORY, "Offsite*", "OFFS"); AddTranslation(REPOSITORY, *, "LIBR"); # Extract volume Description from column 6 (up to fifty characters long) Extract(DESCRIPTION, 6, 50, 0);
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