On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:42:59PM -0400, Larry Mascarenhas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a scenario whereby after a specified amount of time (say 8 
> hours), I would like to terminate the backup job. At this point, we're 
> entering the market hours and backups need to be stopped. Is there any 
> available methodology in Netbackup to interrupt the backups after 
> specified amount of time / at a specified time?

Not that I'm aware of.

> If there isn't, I'm looking for pointers as to how to identify the 
> parent job (Gui is too easy. I'm looking for command line to script it) 
> and from there get the time. Any other way to do this?

It is available in bpdbjobs -all_columns output, but it's in the
variable section after field 32, so it's not the simplest to parse.

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