If I start savegrp from the command line, I can't stop it with the GUI.

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With nsradmin, you can do anything from the command line that you can do in the GUI. Here's an example:

From: Michael S Golub m.s.golub@LARC.NASA.GOV If you want to start a backup from the command line and be able to stop it from the gui use nsradmin to start the backup not savegrp. Create a script similar to the one below and pass it the name of the group to start on the command line. You may want to add some error checking on the user supplied input before using it.

#!/bin/sh --
# Script to start a backup from the command line savegroups  
#started this way are still controllable via the GUI. If savegrp 
#is used directly then the GUI is unable to stop the group.

nsradmin -i - <<EOF 
. type:NSR group; name:$1
update autostart:"start now"
quit
EOF