There's my answer to my test.

thanks Rob.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Worman [mailto:rob AT colltech DOT com]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 8:52 AM
To: David A. Chapa
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Can I stop bprd while backups are running?


At 8:41 AM -0600 2/9/01, David A. Chapa wrote:
>My question would be this:
>
>Why not, after the bpdbjobs check for active jobs and finds NONE, don't you
>just kick off a bpbackupdb then?  That should handle the problem of whether
>or not subsequent backup jobs will be submitted or not.
>
>I've been trying to test this out for you, but my test box is ill.
>
>I was going to simply test:
>
>1.  bpdbjobs returns no active jobs
>2.  run bpbackupdb
>3.  then try to initiate a manual or schedule backup to see if they are
>    submitted or do they wait until the bpbackupdb has completed.

Those jobs will queue up and activate right away, they will not wait for the
bpbackupdb.

The GUI-initiated (or automatically bpsched-initiated) database backup is
the only one that will hold backups as you suggest.  Run it by hand or from
cron or from bpvault and backup activity can go on as usual.

rob