SUMMARY

Creating an ASCII database backup with nhSaveDb, or restoring an ASCII backup with nhLoadDb, is a time consuming process that gives little indication of whether the process is running or in a hung state. Standard output to screen does not update until the process has completed or has failed, which can legitimately take several hours. Customers would like a way to determine progress on a backup or restore process.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. While an ASCII backup or restore is in progress, open a new command line interface window.
    
2. Start sqlplus
   
   In Windows:  sqlplus %NH_USER%/%NH_USER%@%NH_DB_CONNECT_STRING%
   In Solaris/Linux:  sqlplus $NH_USER/[email protected]$NH_DB_CONNECT_STRING
    
3. Enter the following query to check progress of the backup or restore.
   
   

   SELECT sid, serial#, sofar, totalwork, round(sofar/totalwork*100,2) “% Complete”, dp.state 

   FROM gv$session_longops sl, gv$datapump_job dp 

   WHERE sl.opname = dp.job_name;

The table below shows an example of the output the query might display. 

Output will display each process, how far that process has gone out of total work to be completed, a simple percentage value of progress, and the current state of the process.

Release: LHDEVC99000-6.3-eHealth-Live Health Upgrade Elements
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