My opinion:

bpdbjobs -report | grep Active
if [ $? = 0 ];then
echo "Jobs are still running"
else
echo "Jobs are done"
fi

Perhaps putting this is an until loop would be best for 
your scenario.

David

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Quoting "Lawrence, Bob" <bob.lawrence AT primark DOT com>:

> 
> I'm using Netbackup 3.1.5 on NT
>
> Before my operators eject tapes each day I want them 
to check that no
> backups (normal or catalog) are running.
> I need to give them a simple yes/no result, so I was 
thinking I'd write a
> script for them to run.
>
> What is the best way to detect if there is no 
activity?
> I reckon run
> c:\veritas\volmgr\bin\vmoprcmd.exe
> and make sure there are no tapes in any of the drives.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
>
>
> thanks in advance
> Bob
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