TWGIBBAR AT up DOT com wrote:

> I'm attempting to duplicate some tapes to send offsite for DRP purposes.
> The bpduplicate job has been running for an extended period of time.  I'm
> curious if anyone knows how to tell whether or not if the job is actually
> copying from one tape to another.  Is there some type of status command or
> something?  The original backup was 18GB.  I wouldn't think it would take
> over 4 hours to duplicate 18GB worth of data.
>
> omhq1009 -> ps -ef | grep dup
>     root 25680 25678  0 05:00:00 ?         0:00 
> /software/netbackup/scripts/daily_duplicate.sh /software/net
>     root 25698 25691  0 05:00:04 ?         1:28 bptm -dup -cmd -nosig 
> -mediasvr omhq1009 -c omhq1819 -b omhq
>     root 25678 17627  0 05:00:00 ?         0:00 sh -c 
> /software/netbackup/scripts/daily_duplicate.sh >> /log
>     root 25686 25680  0 05:00:00 ?         0:00 
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpduplicate -dstunit STK-9
>     root 25691     1  0 05:00:02 ?         0:17 bptm -dup -cmd -nosig 
> -mediasvr omhq1009 -c omhq1819 -b omhq
>
> omhq1009 -> date
> Thu May 24 09:44:03 CDT 2001
>
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpduplicate -dstunit STK-9710 -client 
> omhq1819
>  -sl HOT_BACKUP_DAILY -dp OffSite -class PROD094 -s `date +%m/%d/%y` -e `date 
> +%
> m/%d/%y`
>
> Thanks,
> Terry
>
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Terry,

    I use the truss command on my Solaris system......

       truss -p < bptm process # >   ( 25698 in your case )


     it will show the data packets and other info as it is processed by 
bptm.....
      not  sure if other systems have equivalnet command.....


paul