--On Monday, March 24, 2003 10:11:59 -0500 Matthew Moffitt <moffitt.10 AT 
sociology.osu DOT edu> wrote:

I have a simple perl script that pulls out entries from the amdump log file to 
track total number of files dumped, bytes output to tape, etc, then feeds these 
out for processing by MRTG.  It works nicely but I can't grab the data during 
the actual
dump phase, only after it's complete when the entire log is written out.

Is there a file I could be pulling data from DURING the dump so I can chart, for 
instance, number of files systems that have been backed up, or a count of bytes sent 
off to tape?  admump.1 or log.<currentdate>.0 only seem to be updated once the 
dump
is complete so I only have the summary information after it is finished.

Thanks much for any help.

-Matt

You could run amstatus and parse the output from that.

Frank

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