If I understand your question correctly, what you're asking for is 
what should be happening...

The default behavior is for the backup job to WAIT until the 
bpstart_notify script completes before the data starts getting sent 
to tape.  Is that what you're asking for?

rob


At 5:34 AM +0100 11/20/03, Levente Tamas wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to backup a client, with a long bpstart script.
>Is it possible to configure Veritas NetBackup to start writing to 
>the tape, just after finishing the  bpstart script?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>L.
>
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