topic Re: fbackup finish feedback in Operating System - HP-UX

fbackup finish feedback

YMJ — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:57:07 GMT

Hi All

I am investigating fbackup man and help files to see if I can setup fbackup to give feedback at the end of the backup process. this feedback will tell if the backup fail, pass, or have some warnings.

Any Help.

BEST REGARDS

Re: fbackup finish feedback

Armin Feller — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:04:04 GMT

Here the exit codes of fbackup:

0 upon normal completion.
1 if it is interrupted but allowed to save its state for possible restart.
2 fbackup(err message #)error conditions detected operation incomplete.
4 fbackup(err message #) warning conditions detected operation may have completed.

If you start fbackup like follows you get the exit code in /tmp/your_br_log

# fbackup -f /dev/rmt/0m -I / 2>&1 | tee /tmp/your_br_log
#echo $? //returns exit code of fbackup//

The standard logfile is /var/sam/log/br_log.

Hope that helps.

Regards ...
Armin

Re: fbackup finish feedback

YMJ — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:33:40 GMT

Yup

THANK YOU VERY MUCH Armin

Re: fbackup finish feedback

Dario_1 — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:42:05 GMT

Hi!

I also have an frecover command that will restore a particular file located at the end of the file. By doing that, I am almost 100% positive I will be able to restore from that tape if I need to do it.

Regards,

DR

Re: fbackup finish feedback

Bill Hassell — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:55:18 GMT

As far as verifying that the tape is good, frecover already provides this functionality using the -N option. The man pages detail the process used by frecover. Restoring a single file is a pretty good method but due to fbackup/frecover's use of high speed searc marks, a great deal of tape data is skiped over without being read or verified.

Re: fbackup finish feedback

Dario_1 — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:01:38 GMT

Bill:

I agree 100% with you. I also use the -N option to verify the tape. It is only an extra step we do just to be able to sleep a little better...:-). You know how it goes.

Regards,

DR