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Old 10-07-2003
Netbackup question

Hello,
I am setting up scripts to do shadow image backups but have found a pitfall I cannot figure out how to work around. Basically what I need to figure out is how to launch a bunch of bpbackups, and then have the script pause until all of the children have exited. The problem is that bpbackup spawns a bpbkar process with a parent of 1. I can't just use pgrep because there may be other bpbkar processes running.

Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
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Old 10-07-2003
I don't know if this will help or not. You could use bpps or bpdbjobs to get more info. The later will tell you if the job is Done or not.
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Old 10-08-2003
According to the man page, "-w 0" will cause bpbackup to wait for a completion status before it returns. Since you want to launch a bunch of these, background them by appending & to the end of the command line. Wait for all background jobs by using "wait".
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