Symptoms

The backend report is being configured through the Avamar Administrator interface. We must choose which domains and clients should be in the report.The expected domains are shown, but the /REPLICATE domain is not visible.Specifying /REPLICATE when calling the backend report from the Avamar command-line results in no meaningful data is produced. Example output is shown below. nohup backendreport --include=/REPLICATE/sourceavamar.domain.com/domain/testclient.domain.com --avtar=--clearcache --avtar=--hashcachemax=-10 --small-client-mb=0 --verbose > backendreport-repl.out & [1] 10074 admin@utility:~/working/>: tail -f backendreport-repl.out Changing working directory to /tmp/replicate INFO: Inclusion patterns are: "/REPLICATE/sourceavamar.domain.com/domain/testclient.domain.com" avmgr logn 1 Request succeeded -1 privilege level (enabled,create,read,backup,access,move,delete,maint,manage,fullmanage,noticketrequired, superuser,ignoreacls,readdir,mclogin,opt1,opt2) 2 block type (directory) avmgr cpdb --path=/ --mvpath=/REPLICATE/ --out=replnew.sh --avmgr-path=avmgr --failover --list-snapups Script "replnew.sh" for target path /REPLICATE copies 36 users in 115 accounts (81 clients) Accounting changes: 0 differences DONE Replicate to successful, elapsed 0000:00:08 (Wed Jan 22 09:42:18 GMT 2014) <backendreport version="6.1.2-46" reporttime="2014/01/22-09:42:18" bytessent="0" totaltime="0"> </backendreport> completed backendreport (pid=10074) ============================== Finished backendreport

Cause

The backend report uses a standard root-to-replicate replication process to calculate its results. Standard replication is intended to take a regular domain as its srcpath and not the /REPLICATE domain, The backend capacity report does not accept a path containing the /REPLICATE domain. 

Resolution

The Avamar Administrator UI does not allow /REPLICATE domain to be selected for reporting purposes.The backend report must be run on the source Avamar Administrator UI against clients under the / (root) domain.Workaround:It is possible to run the backend report against the /REPLICATE domain of an Avamar server by running it from the command line. See Avamar - How to run a backend capacity report on the /REPLICATE domain. 

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