I stripped out some corporate specific info from here... please let me know
if you have a run time problem with this.  This script is more for finding a
single file in a client's history and recovering it.

Usages:
  searchclient.pl someclient "\.mp3$" "\.txt"

Result:
# ./search_client.pl unixclient '\.txt$' '\.mp3$'
Searching for strings(s): \.txt$ \.mp3$...

Processing 1247533332 (Mon Jul 13 20:02:12 2009) [0/443] ...

1247533332: /local/.../fontconfig-user.txt

1247533332: /local/.../fontconfig-devel.TXT
...
Recovery commands:
recover -t 1247533332 -a "/local/.../fontconfig-user.txt"  [OFF070 offline]
recover -t 1247533332 -a "/local/.../fontconfig-devel.TXT"  [OFF070 offline]


---- SCRIPT searchclient.pl BELOW ---
#!/usr/bin/perl

if (!@ARGV){
  die "Usage: $0 client [-a] <search string>\n\t -a -- search group Archive
only\n";
}
$client = shift;

foreach $arg (@ARGV) {
  if ($arg =~ /-a/) {
    $arguments = " -q group=Archive ";
  } else {
    push @searchstrings,$arg;
  }
}

if (@searchstrings) {
  print "Searching for strings(s): " . join(" ",@searchstrings) . "... \n";
}

my @data = `mminfo -r nsavetime -v $arguments -c $client`;
chomp(@data);

if (!@data) {
  die "ERROR: Unable to get list of savetimes - check mminfo query";
}

$totalepochs = $#data;

foreach my $epoch (reverse(@data)){
  $epoch =~ s/ *//g;
  chomp;

  my $tm = localtime($epoch);
  print "\nProcessing $epoch ($tm) [" . $epochs++ . "/$totalepochs] ...\n";

  open(IN, "nsrinfo -t $epoch $client|") || die "Cannot run nsrinfo ";

  $results=0;

  while(<IN>){
    $results++;
    chomp;

    if (@searchstrings) {
      foreach $x (@searchstrings) {
        if (/$x/i) {
          $found++;
        }
      }
      if ($found) {
        print "\n$epoch: $_\n";
        $tapequery = "-q savetime=" . $epoch . ",client=" . $client .
",!near";
        $tapes = `mminfo -r volume $tapequery`;
        $messages .= "recover -t $epoch -a \"$_\"";
        if ($tapes) {
          $tapes =~ s/\n/ /g;
          $messages .= "  [" . $tapes . "offline]";
        }
        $messages .= "\n";
        $found = 0;
      }
    } else {
      print "$epoch: $_\n";
    }
  }
  close(IN);
  print "Searched $results files.\n";
}

if ($messages) {
  print "\n\nRecovery commands:\n$messages\n";
}


On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu> wrote:

> In regard to: [Networker] Is there a way to read the indexes?, Louis
> Munro...:
>
>  Hello all,
>> I'm running networker 7.4 on solaris 10.
>>
>> Is there a way to read the information in the index files?
>> More specifically, I need to know how many files of a certain
>> extension have been backed in the last year for a saveset.
>>
>
> Looking for mp3s?  :-)
>
> Assuming you have client indexes going back a year, this type of thing is
> easy.  Look at the nsrinfo command and search the archives for this list
> for information on best to use the command.
>
> You basically want to find the exact numeric savetime (nsavetime) for
> the savesets you want to search, using something like
>
> mminfo -ot -q 'client=your.client.name,name=/home' -r nsavetime >
> nsavetimes
>
> Then use nsrinfo to report the contents of each one of those savesets:
>
> for d in `cat nsavetimes`
> do
>        nsrinfo -t $d your.client.name | egrep '\.mp3'
> done
>
>
> Of course the commands could be combined, but I find it generally takes me
> a little fiddling with the mminfo query before I have what I want to feed
> to nsrinfo in the loop.
>
> This all requires that your client indexes are still populated though.
>
> Tim
> --
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