Guest Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I am a Junior level C# programmer working on a report for a client that is using Retrospect for their backup solution. I am trying to figure out the best way for me to capture the successful/failed backups to send to my server to build the report. The rest of the report uses the windows event logs to capture events but I cannot get a accurate view of the successful and truly failed backups. Can anyone tell me how the events for Retrospect are stored (database/flat file) and is it encrypted? I need to figure out a way to search the Retrospect event logs and get the successful/failed backups so I can use them in my report. All thoughts are welcomed, Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 hi chad, have you taken a look at 'Reports Watcher'? it's a VB script that exports the Backup Report to HTML so that you can view it better. i believe the whole source code is shipped with Retrospect. maybe if you check their code you can figure out something that will work for you. here's the README: Quote: ReportsWatcher ------------------------- Intended primarily for large sites with multiple backup computers, ReportsWatcher is a stand-alone utility that converts Retrospect backup reports and operations logs to HTML summaries for viewing from a web browser. Used in conjunction with Retrospect's feature to automatically export the backup report to a custom location, ReportsWatcher allows you to monitor one or more backup computers from any computer with a web browser. ReportsWatcher is fully documented in the Retrospect User's Guide. Copyright © 2006 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Thanks for the response. I haven't looked at Reports Watcher. I'll have to look into that and see if there is anyway I can leverage it. I might be able to see how they are pulling the data and do the same. I'm still curious if the events are stored in a database that I can query or a file that I can search. Thanks, Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 hi chad, the log file is a plain old .utx file, located here: 'C:\\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Retrospect\Operations_Log.utx' you could certainly parse that file for the data you are after. cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Thanks again for you reply. This is getting close to what I'm looking for but I cannot figure out how to tell what has finished successfully and what has failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Does anyone know where the Activity Monitor events are stored? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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