Backup and Restore 2 Manual

Monitoring Backup and Restore 2 Jobs
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8-8
Using BRCOM to Display Current Status for a Job
Monitoring Job States
To monitor job states, use the STATUS JOB command. Table 8-1 describes the status
for backup and restore jobs.
Tapedrive1 If present, first tapedrive
used by a Parallel Backup
operation.
Tapedrive2 If present, second tapedrive
used by a Parallel Backup
operation
Tapedrive If present, the first tape drive
used by the destination
service for a parallel backup
job.
Table 8-1. Backup and Restore Job States
Status Description
ABND The job abended. A job might fail for several reasons. For example, a
processor might be down, a file might be full (error 45), a disk might
be full (error 43), or an internal error might have occurred.
ABRT The job was aborted using the BRCOM ABORT JOB command.
CAT The job is in the process of updating the media catalog.
DONE The job has finished normally.
INIT BRCOM is either starting the DMA or initializing the software to
prepare for the job.
RUN The job is in progress.
STOP The job was stopped by a BRCOM STOP JOB command.
TERM The job is in the process of stopping or aborting.
WAIT Waiting on tape open
Field Description Comments