What if the backup fails?  Will you attempt to restart 
the backup or up the DBs and notify someone_who_cares 
that it failed?

If that's what you want to do, the a bpstart_notify and 
bpend_notify script is what you want.

David

PS. I used those for backing up ClearCase databases

Quoting Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA:

> I'm using multiple data streams with media 
multiplexing. Apparently -w is
> not reliable.
>
> But if i use -L
>
> I should be able to monitor the file to check for:
> Client completed sending data for backup
>
> Then what i can do is use 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bperror to
> check for errors.
>
> What i'm doing is writing a backup script to make 
sure that the Progress
> Database servers are down, backup the system, check 
to make sure the
> backup was successful and startup all the databases. 
Then i must jump to
> another server and do the same.
>
> Fun eh?
>
> Karl
>
>
>
>
> "David A. Chapa" <david AT xbpadm-commands DOT com>
> Sent by: david AT xbpadm-commands DOT com
> 05/08/2001 02:24 PM
> Please respond to "David A. Chapa"
>
>
>         To:     Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: [Veritas-bu] bpbackup
>
>
> well there are several ways.  Are you looking to
> automate this?
>
> bpdbjobs  has several ways to viewing if a job is
> complete.
>
> The notify scripts will do "something" when a job
> finishes.  That something is up to you, if you want 
an
> email or update a file, etc.
>
> ofcourse there's always echo $? for the status of the
> last command (in this case bpbackup)
>
> david
>
> Quoting Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA:
>
> > I'm using Business Server 3.4 on Solaris. If submit 
a
> job using bpbackup
> > at the command line, how can i tell(via the command
> line) that the job has
> > completed?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Karl
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>
>
>
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