topic Re: fbackup return value in Operating System - HP-UX

fbackup return value

Koh Kuan Wong — Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:56:12 GMT

I am writing a script to do backup and executes other commands.

Is there a way where I can know whether a fbackup process is successful or not? Only if the backup is successful, then only I can proceed to the other commands.

In the man page, I can see that there is this statement :
fbackup returns one of the following values:
0 upon normal completion.
1 if it is interrupted but allowed to save
its state for possible restart.
2 if any error conditions prevent the
session from completing.
4 if any warning conditions are encountered.

If warnings occur, the operator should check the fbackup logs to verify the sanity of the backup.

But, I have looked for the log files and I don't see any of the values mention above.

Thanks.

Re: fbackup return value

Rob Smith — Wed, 27 Jun 2001 02:00:39 GMT

Hi, couple of things. In your script put print $? after the backup. That will give you the return value of the backup job. You can then base whatever you want to do after the backup job on that exit code. Secondly, if you run your backups through sam then the results of the backup are logged in /var/sam/log/br_log. You will see the exit code appended to that file. Hope this helps.

Rob

Re: fbackup return value

Michael Tully — Wed, 27 Jun 2001 02:06:36 GMT

Hi,

You must use the -I and -v options to make
sure that logging is done. if the -I is
omitted no logging will occur.

HTH
Michael

Re: fbackup return value

Magdi KAMAL — Wed, 27 Jun 2001 04:02:12 GMT

Hi,

The following script could solve your problem :

# fbackup command will backup /users directory
fbackup -f /dev/rmt/0m -i /users

if [[ $? = 0 ]]
then
# fbackup terminates correctly
# Put instructions related to that here
else
# fbackup terminates uncorrectly
# Put instructions related to that here
fi