Re: any way to know the progress of a level1 (or level0) ontape save?

"sumGirl" <emebohw@netscape.net> wrote in message news:a5e13cff.0409151450.245785df@posting.google.com... > Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to check the progress of an ontape backup? If you zero out the stats with onstat -z then do an onstat -D you can see which chunk it's on. You'll be able to tell then how far through that dbspace it is. Telling the order of the dbspaces is more tricky. If you don't zero out the stats onstat -u will show you how many reads the archive session has done. Since the total number of pages it will read is (allocated - free) pages for all your chunks you should be able to tell from here how far through it is too.

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:2qss9nF13kr5eU1@uni-berlin.de... > "sumGirl" <emebohw@netscape.net> wrote in message > news:a5e13cff.0409151450.245785df@posting.google.com... > > Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to check the progress of an ontape> backup? > > If you zero out the stats with onstat -z then do an onstat -D you can see > which chunk it's on. You'll be able to tell then how far through that > dbspace it is. Telling the order of the dbspaces is more tricky. Ontape order of dbspaces is dbsnum. This is also the same order they appear in the online.log entries for ontape. If your following an ontape restore, a checkpoint occurs after each dbspace. > > If you don't zero out the stats onstat -u will show you how many reads the > archive session has done. Since the total number of pages it will read is > (allocated - free) pages for all your chunks you should be able to tell > from here how far through it is too. > >

Thats great info Neil. I'm betting something like thats the result of years of experience, thanks! "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:<2qss9nF13kr5eU1@uni-berlin.de>... > "sumGirl" <emebohw@netscape.net> wrote in message > news:a5e13cff.0409151450.245785df@posting.google.com... > > Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to check the progress of an ontape > backup? > > If you zero out the stats with onstat -z then do an onstat -D you can see > which chunk it's on. You'll be able to tell then how far through that > dbspace it is. Telling the order of the dbspaces is more tricky. > > If you don't zero out the stats onstat -u will show you how many reads the > archive session has done. Since the total number of pages it will read is > (allocated - free) pages for all your chunks you should be able to tell > from here how far through it is too.