Enrique wrote, in part, on 8/23/2005 12:20 PM:
> What do I grep for to see if a restore or backup is currently running?

If non-"Done" jobs is close enough for you:

bpdbjobs -L|grep -iv "Done"

cheers, wayne

Enrique,
You should use the following to grep for backup processes on a client system:
ps -ef | grep bp

"Enrique" wrote:
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>What do I grep for to see if a restore or backup is currently running?
>
>ps -ef|grep ???
>
>Thanks

"Mandy" wrote:
>
>Enrique,
>You should use the following to grep for backup processes on a client system:
>ps -ef | grep bp
>
>"Enrique" wrote:
>>
>>What do I grep for to see if a restore or backup is currently running?
>>
>>ps -ef|grep ???
>>
>>Thanks
>

this may well be overkill but i have all this kind of thing automated - have
a look here and see if it's of any use - http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.c...1111514&page=1