Kill bpbkar after 4 hours

[Netbackup_fan]

Hi experts.

I need to terminate the backup if it does not finished in 4 hours so that our script can start the database.

When we cancel manually via the console the coldbackup script continues and starts the database, but I need to create another script to verify automatically the timing.

Can I just kill the bpbkar process?

PARAM9=! ps -ef| grep -v grep | grep bpbkar|wc -l
if [[ $PARAM9  -gt 0 ]] ; then
  kill -9 $(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep bpbkar | awk '{print $2}')
fi
 

[RamNagalla · Accepted solution]

yes, you can do that and in this case your backup will fail with EC 50.

[Netbackup_fan]

Thank you!

[Nicolai]

do a kill -1 PID or kill -2 PID

It's a more gracefull way to stop bpbkar than kill -9