README

This project aims to translate data from 'bpdbjobs -report -all_columns' 
through bpdbreport.py (aided by sample.fmt, and some command line flags)
to generate a gantt chart.  

What's the point?  To see visually when various tries for backup jobs occur.

--Jason

Details:

1) run 'bpdbjobs -report -all_columns' on your netbackup master server, and 
   save the output as 'bpdbjobs.out'.  Bring the bpdbjobs.out file to the
   directory where the code lives.  Then run 'runme'.  
2) Four SVG files will be created: all.svg, full.svg, cumm.svg and diff.svg.
   all.svg contains the gantt chart for all jobs.  Full, Cumm and Diff only
   show the jobs following those backup schedules.  This may need to be
   tweaked for your environment
3) You may want to add a step to 'runme' which moves the 4 SVG files to a
   websserver or somesuch where you can view the files.

ToDo's:

1) Setup 'runme' to take a filename argument, instead of a fixed file.
2) CairoPlot used to produce vertical bars for each demark in the axis (1 
   vertical bar for each hour in this example).  I need to find the way
   to turn this back on.

Considerations:

1) I suggest (strongly) that you only throw a day's worth of data into the
   'produce_gantt.py' script.  The easiest way to do this, is to specify 
   a date to bpdbreport.py.  The runme script is already setup to do this
   with the $yesterday variable.
   The reason for this is these images are HUGE.  I'm not thrilled with how
   thick the horizontal bars are in CairoPlot's gantt chart implementation.
   However, I haven't found a magic part of the code to change the thickness
   of the bars.
   Also, if you throw more than ~12 hours of data in to the script, you're
   vertical bars get REALLY small and hard to read.  This is NOT a
   contridiction in my environment, since my backups tend to take 9ish hours
   for 1 day.