typo...the JOBS variable should be NOJOBS.



Quoting "David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com>:

> Here's what I would do:  
> 
> 1. Terminate the request daemon.
> 2. Check for running jobs.
> 3. If there are running jobs, sleep.
> 4. If there are no jobs, then run bpbackupdb.
> 
> PS. You may also want to put some logic in there to check for duplication
> jobs 
> as well.
> 
> David
> 
> ---BEGIN CODE SAMPLE---
> bprdreq -terminate    
> 
> bpdbjobs -M <master> -report | egrep -i "Active" > /dev/null 2>&1
> JOBS=$?
> until [ $NOJOBS -ne 0 ]
> do
>  echo "Checking Jobs"
>  sleep 300
>  bpdbjobs -M <master> report | egrep -i "Active" >/dev/null 2>&1
>  NOJOBS=$?
> done
> bpbackupdb
> initbprd
> #
> ---END CODE SAMPLE---
> 
> Quoting "Raghavan, Shyam" <Shyam.Raghavan AT weac DOT com>:
> 
> > David,
> > 
> > Interesting. that was a good piece of information. I have been running
> the
> > Netbackup DB backup through Cron and occasionally, when people run manual
> > backups,  it used to run the backup job  along with the DB backup.
> > 
> > If that is not a normal operation, then I would like to know how do I
> > suspend the request daemon 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Shyam.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: david AT dsihost-srv01 DOT com [mailto:david AT dsihost-srv01 DOT com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:59 AM
> > To: Whelan, Patrick
> > Cc: Veritas-Bu (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpbackupdb confirmation
> > 
> > 
> > Patrick, 
> > 
> > The primary difference is this.
> > 
> > When NBU runs it via its automatic schedule, it causes bprd to suspend its
> 
> > ability to submit any jobs to the queue (actually it suspends its ability
> > to
> > 
> > wake-up bpsched that looks for something to do).  So if no backup jobs are
> 
> > running then your database will be in a quieted state suitable for a
> proper
> > 
> > backup.  
> > 
> > When you run it manually, bprd is not suspended and jobs may potentially
> be
> > 
> > submitted during the backup putting it in a questionable state.  You will
> > have 
> > to manually suspend the request daemon.
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting "Whelan, Patrick" <Patrick.Whelan AT commerzbankib DOT com>:
> > 
> > > Can someone please explain what differences there are between running
> > > bpbackupdb manually and letting NBU run it. Also is there a difference
> > from
> > > running it from session_notify or cron? Any help would be greatly
> > > appreciated.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Patrick Whelan
> > > Commerzbank
> > > Frankfurt, Germany
> > > +49 69 136.44927
> > > 
> > > Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
> > > 
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