Re: Is amanda busy

Charles Curley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
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On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:18:32 -0400
Nathan Stratton Treadway <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:10:21 +0700, Olivier wrote:
> > Does it exist a command that can be used to check whether amanda is
> > busy or not?
> > 
> > For example, do not launch the daily backup if the previous one is
> > still running, or do not reboot Amanda server (network stability
> > issue) if a backup is being done.  
> 
> I don't know of a straightforward Amanda-provided command to do
> exactly this.

(lots of excellent advice deleted.)

For a script, you could probably get something useful with some variant
on

ps aux | grep amdump

and examine the return value ( the variable $?).

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