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Operating Systems AIX Tape drive write status Post 302407129 by jmbeach on Wednesday 24th of March 2010 03:33:18 PM
Old 03-24-2010
Since you are running sysback as a cron job, where are you sending the output from the sysback? I know that at my last job, the clients that were running cron-based backups were set up so that the output from the sysback cron was sent to a log file for review the next morning.

Depending on the options you use with the sysback command line, you can get any amount of progress information for the backup: from just start/stop and logical volume progress - to a detailed progress report showing the percentage of backup completion (similar to the on screen display during an interactive backup) (this produces way too much data).

If you find the right level of verbosity for the back script and send the output to a log file, you could monitor that log file to find out the backup progress, similiar to mikep9's suggestion.
 

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NAME
backintime-gnome - a simple backup tool for Gnome. SYNOPSIS
backintime-gnome [ [--snapshots] path | --backup | --backup-job | --snapshots-path | --snapshots-list | --snapshots-list-path | --last-snapshot | --last-snapshot-path | --help | --version | --license ] DESCRIPTION
Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux. This is the Gnome version. For more information about Back In Time see backintime man page. If you want to run it as root you need to use 'gksu'. OPTIONS
path go directly to the specified file/folder -s, --snapshots show snapshots dialog for the specified path (only if there is no other dialog displayed) -b, --backup take a snapshot now (if needed) --backup-job take a snapshot (if needed) depending on schedule rules (used for cron jobs) --snapshots-path display path where is saves the snapshots (if configured) --snapshots-list display the list of snapshot IDs (if any) --snapshots-list-path display the paths to snapshots (if any) --last-snapshot display last snapshot ID (if any) --last-snapshot-path display the path to the last snapshot (if any) -h, --help display a short help -v, --version show version --license show license SEE ALSO
backintime, backintime-kde4. Back In Time also has a website: http://backintime.le-web.org AUTHOR
This manual page was written by BIT Team(<bit-team@lists.launchpad.net>). version 1.0.10 Mars 2009 backintime-gnome(1)
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