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Monitor a long running process

Gurus,

I am writing a shell script that will be used to automate cold backup of an Oracle Database. The database size is around 300G and will take around 5-6 hours to copy.

I have finished the script till the copy of the datafiles. Now, I am stuck at the point where I need to monitor the copy process.

I usually use while loop to monitor any long running process as below:

Code:
while true
do
if [[ $(ps -ef | grep <long running process id> | wc -l) -eq 0 ]];
then
<do something>
break
else
<do something>
fi

Now, my question is, is this the only way? Is someone using any other method to monitor a long running process?Smilie

Do share your thoughts.


Regards,

Praveen
 
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