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DNANOBEL
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12 years ago

BEMCMD list active jobs for ALL jobs

Hi,

I want to unpause the tapedrive automatically when there are no active/running jobs running anymore for 10 mins.

How can I achieve this with the BEMCMD in a bat-file?

 

I searched for -o15 and -o16 and it requires a job name or job id.... I would to use a sort of wild card (*) so that I dont have to use this command for every seperate job. Or else I have to lookup more then 100 job ids/names....

Kind regards,

  • Aha I found it! it was listed as deprecated command, but it still works: bemcmd -o11

     

    C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec>bemcmd -o11

    NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 0
    RETURN VALUE: 1

     

    Now I can create a BAT file to check the active jobs.
    I'm not sure how to create this bat-file, but if somebody could help me with an example I would be really thankfull.

  • You might want to use the -o62 switch to check whether the drive is paused.  If it is paused, then unpause it.  Otherwise, there is no need for to do an unpause.

  • Hi,

    I want to unpause the tapedrive when all other jobs are completed.

    With -o62 I can only check if the tape is paused. But this wont help me to reach my goal.

    I put my tapedrive on pause on a fixed time/date. (before all jobs start)

    I want to unpause the tapedrive when all jobs are completed. Because I want to the backup2disk jobs run first and when all are completed, I want to unpause the tapedrive so all the duplicate jobs can start.

    Other question: How can I retrieve the status of the backup2disk device? (if it's not in use anymore, then I can unpause the tapedrive device)

     

    Any other ideas?

  • If your duplicate jobs are waiting for the tape drive then they are considered to be active so your strategy is of no use. Why don't you let the duplicate jobs run?
  • If the duplicate jobs run while the backup2disk jobs are running (write I/O's), then it will cost too many read  I/O's for my Backup2Disk harddisk drive. (d:\) The cache on the RAID controller performs better if read/write are not mixed.

     

    But can you help me with my last question: Is it possible to lookup the status of the backup2disk device? (In the GUI you can see "in use" message.

  • I have not come across a switch which returns the busy status of a drive.

    Have you tried scheduling your duplicate jobs to start at a certain time after all the backup jobs have completed.

  • The option you mention is too static (fixed time). I want to have a dynamic start of the backup2tape jobs.

    If it's not possible, then I have to query the database of BackupExec and lookup the status of the jobs every 5 mins.

     

    The same would be nice: run a report job when all jobs are finished (dynamic end time).

     

  • I tried -o23, but i am getting 227 as result, see below. Can somebody help me with this?

     

    C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec>bemcmd -o23 -s:"Running"

    NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 227
    RETURN VALUE: 1

    C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec>bemcmd -o23 -s

    NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 227
    RETURN VALUE: 1

    C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec>bemcmd -o23 -s:running

    NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 227
    RETURN VALUE: 1

    C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec>bemcmd -o23 -s:"Active"

    NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 227
    RETURN VALUE: 1

  • Aha I found it! it was listed as deprecated command, but it still works: bemcmd -o11

     

    C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec>bemcmd -o11

    NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 0
    RETURN VALUE: 1

     

    Now I can create a BAT file to check the active jobs.
    I'm not sure how to create this bat-file, but if somebody could help me with an example I would be really thankfull.