Finding out whether a backup has to be restarted

To find out whether a backup initiated by the dump command is proceeding as expected or has terminated, you can run the backup status command.

Step

To know the status of a backup, enter the following command: backup status

The command provides output in the following format:

ID State       Type   Device  Start Date     Level  Path 
-- -----       ----   ------  ----------     -----  ----
1  ACTIVE      dump   nrst0a  Nov 28 00:22   0     /vol/vol0
2  ACTIVE      dump   nrst0a  Nov 28 00:22   3     /vol/vol1
4  ACTIVE      NDMP   urst1a  Nov 28 00:22   1     /vol/vol0
6  RESTARTABLE dump           Nov 27 00:22   3     /vol/vol1

The elements of the dump table are described in the following table.

Element	Description
ID	The unique ID assigned to the dump and the index in the software’s internal dump table. As soon as a dump completes, its ID number is deallocated and returned to the pool of available slots. The total number of entries in the dump table is limited to 32.
State	The state of the dump: ACTIVE or RESTARTABLE.
Type	The type of invocation of dump: CLI or NDMP.
Device	The current device to which the dump is writing.
Start Date	The date on which the backup began.
Level	The level of the dump (0 through 9).
Path	The dump path.

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