If session terminated accidently, can i still see the output of the terminated session

[Gaurav Verma]

Hi!!!

While taking Backup of my Database server, my session accidently got terminated, Backup is still running, now i m unable to check wht is happening. Can any one suggest me how to open/check that particular running output?

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

When a connection is destroyed, child processes are normally terminated with the SIGHUP signal. top is useless to determine the state of your backup session because it does not show the parent process ID. If your copy of fbackup was run with the nohup command and puj into the background, then fbackup is now owned by init. But since your terminal device does not exist, any output from fbackup is lost. You can't get your terminal reconnected to a running program.

That is why a long-running process like a backup must be scripted and all the output redirected into a logfile.

[Gaurav Verma]

hi!!!

Thnx for the support, but still can u tell me hw i can read /dev/rmt/0mn while taking backup to know hw many files are left. or can I see any warning or error message in any perticular log????
i use this cmd:-
fbackup -v -f /dev/rmt/0mn -i /d/db/oradata -i /d/db/8.1.7.3

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

try:
frecover -f /dev/rmt/0mn -v -r -N
==> -v = verbose; -r = everything; -N = just list the files.

hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Bill Hassell]

Once you are disconnected from the fbackup process, you cannot see any status at all (unless it was started with stdout redirected into a logfile -- then you would use the tail command on the logfile to monitor progress). You can't read anything from the devicefile for the tape because it is being written by fbackup. You'll just have to wait for fbackup to complete or kill the process and restart it, but this time, redirect the output into a file.