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Monitor Backup or Restore Progress Using ^BACKUP

Monitor Backup or Restore Progress Using ^BACKUP

To monitor the progress of a running backup or restore job started using ^BACKUP, select option 7 from the ^BACKUP menu. You can start the monitor in a separate Terminal window before starting the backup or restore job.

For a running backup job, the following information is displayed:

                                 Backup Status
                                 -------------
 
Status:                       Running
Backup process pid:           13052
Backup file:                  c:\132u1\mgr\stcfull.bck
Description:
Log file:                     c:\132u1\mgr\irisbackup.log
Type:                         Full
Start time:                   2018-09-05 14:09:02
Estimated finish time:        2018-09-05 14:09:45
Total time (hh:mm:ss):        00:00:18
Time remaining (hh:mm:ss):    00:00:25
Estimated backup size:        7.68GB
Current backup size:          3.12GB
Current Backup rate:          184MB/sec
% Completed                   41

For a running restore job, the following information is displayed:

                                 Restor Status
                                 -------------
 
Status:                       Running
Restore process pid:          13052
Restore file:                 c:\132u1\mgr\stcfull.bck
Description:
Type:                         Full
Start time:                   2018-09-05 14:10:49
Estimated finish time:        2018-09-05 14:12:07
Total time (hh:mm:ss):        00:00:34
Time remaining (hh:mm:ss):    00:00:44
Restore file size:            7.68GB
Restore size completed:       3.28GB
Current restore rate:         103MB/sec
% Completed                   43
Note:

When doing an incremental backup, some of the fields are not available and are displayed as N/A. This includes Time remaining, Estimated backup size, and % Completed.

A restore job cannot be monitored if switch 10 was set when starting the restore.

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