ntbackup command line and GUI question

[mikeQA]

Hi,

I ran the command line of ntbackup with some switches to test out something and I noticed that it immediately returned to the command prompt. Is there a way to keep that from happening until the job is completed? I did notice that the GUI disappeared once the job was completed.

The reason is I am writing a test in perl in order to do cold exchange backups which then in turn would be backed up via Veritas NBU (and at some point TSM) so I am looking to automate it using Perl and cygwin which is what we run all our perl tests from on windows. Typically the Windows Server is also the client for NBU/TSM so server/client software will be installed for the NBU/TSM portion.

I know I can take an educated guess but if I am testing on a different exchange server (I have 2, 2003 and 2007 enterprise both) I will be passing multiple paths as well for each store. So something that'd work in perl for monitoring this till ntbackup was finished would be appreciated. Ideas also welcome ;-) .

 

[XyPlan]

Hi,

If you are running from a command line, try the following

start/min/wait ntbackup.exe <parameters>

The gui opens but the cmd window will wait for ntbackup to complete.

Cheers

Steve

 

[mikeQA]

I found using a while loop in cygwin appears to work fine. I use the windows tasklist command like:

while (` tasklist | grep ntbackup`) {
sleep 60;
}

Just sleeps till job is done, then within a minute moves on to next part of the code/test. Seems to work ok.

Mike