fbackup scheduling question

[Mark Greene_1]

On one of my HP systems we have an fbackup that runs nightly. I can see that the contents of /var/adm/fbackupfiles/dates changes daily:

STARTED: Thu Sep 26 23:56:21 2002 ENDED: Fri Sep 27 00:41:29 2002

However, when I go into sam and look at backups, it reports that no automatic backups are scheduled. So my question is, where else should I look to see from where this is being run? I've looked in all of the crontabs, and no fbackups there.

TIA
mark

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Mark

Have a look in cronlog - the owner info should be there.

HTH

Paula

[Rodney Hills]

The only other scheduling system would be "at".

Try "at -l" to list scheduled jobs. Although an "at" job is run only once, the script could run "at" again to reschedule itself.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

HI

/var/adm/cron/log

and /var/adm/at.allow

May help

Paula

[Ian Dennison_1]

How consistent is the Start Time?

I would put a check into crontab like so,....

01 00 * * * ps -ef >/tmp/psef

At 1 minute past midnight get a process list and the next working morning, find the PID and the PPID and trace back to whatever spawned the process.

If the start time is inconsistent, perhaps the application is triggering it? Perhaps at the end of each job, the script reschedules itself with an 'at' command?

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Mark:

The name of the graph file used with the backup preceeds th line "STARTED...". Perhaps that may be of help.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Mark Greene_1]

Thanks to all who replied; it turns out that the fbackup is being explicitly called by the application, which is why I could not find it anywhere else.

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