For your unix type environments you could have the script fired off via
nohup & push it into the background, then have the script sleep for 60
seconds or so to give the event time to complete.

but depending on your situation and who might have their fingers in what
pie...
      remember, a backup that excludes everything will do nothing but
return success.

So another thing you might try is to mail yourself a tail of your
sched.log...

05/05/2003 06:10:10 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Total number of objects inspected:   47,598
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Total number of objects backed up:      277
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Total number of objects updated:          0
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Total number of objects rebound:          0
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Total number of objects deleted:          0
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Total number of objects expired:          2
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Total number of objects failed:           7
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Total number of bytes transferred:    14.10 MB
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Data transfer time:                   12.25 sec
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Network data transfer rate:        1,179.06 KB/sec
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Aggregate data transfer rate:         23.80 KB/sec
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Objects compressed by:                   73%
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Elapsed processing time:           00:10:07
05/05/2003 06:10:10 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END
05/05/2003 06:10:10 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END ADSM-0600-INC 05/05/2003
06:00:00
05/05/2003 06:10:10 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'ADSM-0600-INC' failed.
Return code = 4.
05/05/2003 06:10:10 Sending results for scheduled event 'ADSM-0600-INC'.
05/05/2003 06:10:11 Results sent to server for scheduled event
'ADSM-0600-INC'.


Dwight





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Hi

I run a postschedulecmd to send a e-mail  for the backup status
(Completed,Missed,Failed) , the process run correctly but instead of
receiving one of the status I received just "Started".

I understand that the postschedulecmd run after the end of the backup so
why
I received "Started" and not the correct status .....

T.I.A Regards

Robert Ouzen
Helpdesk Manager
Haifa University
Israel
E-Mail:rouzen AT univ.haifa.ac DOT il