I do this:

bpdbjobs -report | egrep "Active|Queue"

for the active backup jobs and a simple ps and grep for bpbackupdb like Ryan
suggested.

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David A. Chapa
NetBackup Consultant
DataStaff, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Ryan
Anderson
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:48 AM
To: mblackburn AT glenraven DOT com; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] determining if a backup or netbackup
databasebackup is occuring from the command line.


I don't know of one, but something along the lines of:

bpdbjobs -report | grep Active | grep <classname>
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "<classname> backup is running!"
fi

should get you what you want for a backup is running. To determine if a NBU
database backup is occuring, just change the first line to:

ps -ef|grep bpbackupdb


RCA

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>>> "Marvin Blackburn" <mblackburn AT glenraven DOT com> 12/06/01 08:51AM >>>
Is there a command or way to determine from a script (unix/veritas 3.2) if a
backup is currently running or if the netbackup database backup is running?

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Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven
336-586-1200
"He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George

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