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.

>/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`

Because you didn't specify -mpx to bpduplicate, it will de-multiplex the
duplicate which takes quite a bit longer to duplicate. If you backup
using True Image Recovery information, this will take longer also; aside
from the fact that duplicates seem to take longer than backups in
general... 

To get more detailed logging, add the -v option to get verbose logging,
then -L and a place to log it to. This way, you'll get more verbose
logging. I've found that with real large images that are being
duplicated, you can see that *some* progress is occurring by checking
out the All Log Entries report (bpadm --> r --> a). You'll see progress
of fragments being written out, like this:

05/24/2001 09:04:03 nbserver nbclient successfully read (duplicate)
backup id nbclient_0990691556, copy 1, fragment 1, 30681 Kbytes at
4020.535 Kbytes/sec


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