Thanks to all.
 
Len - you're assessment is correct in what is shown in the group details 
screen.  At least now we can be somewhat confident we're not missing the 
obvious!
 
Anyone know if more current versions provide this?

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion on behalf of Len Philpot
Sent: Thu 2/12/2009 9:53 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Backup Progress Status



> Warden, Kim wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Is there a way to see the progress status of a scheduled backup job,
> > like a percentage done, or even a window that shows the total
scheduled
> > for backup so that we can then figure it out based on what's showing
as
> > completed so far?  We'd like to know how much is left to backup while
> > waiting for a backup to complete.
> >
> > Using Legato 7.2 for Solaris.

> Doesn't the group details window of nwadmin show you this?

It only shows, as far as I recall, remaining savesets and 'current'
failures.

About the only way I've been able to gauge at all (also using 7.2 on
Solaris) is to compare the current backup size as reported in the Sessions
pane of nwadmin with a comparable size in the indexes dialog for that
client, which is very crude at best. The "x of y savesets" info in the
sessions pane is apparently not sequential, but rather (I guess) just a
note of which saveset in the list is currently underway. I've seen it move
forward and backward, jump around, etc., as a backup progresses as well as
during cloning.

>From what I've seen, Networker isn't particularly helpful in that regard
unless there's some way to extract it using mminfo, etc. (which seems
unlikely). Maybe I'm just missing it ... ?

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