Ref: 14980010
Title: Simulating a Wait Command with 3+Open Backup
date: 4/9/90

Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991.  All rights reserved.

You can use the BACKMAN STATUS command to force a wait command.
Since BACKMAN STATUS sets the errorlevel to 1 if the tape drive is
busy, you can write a batch file to force backup to wait until the
current operation finishes.  The batch file below will continuously
try to execute the backup operation at five-minute intervals:

 :loop
 backman status \\server\tape
 if not errorlevel 1 goto backup
 sleep 300
 goto loop
 :backup
 backman backup \\server \\server\tape /......

Note:  Get the SLEEP.EXE utility from the SHTDWN.ZIP file in the
Ask3Com Forum, Non-Supported Utilities library.

To back up multiple servers or multiple users' hard disks, you can use
the AT scheduler.  Use replaceable parameters to avoid hard-coding a
server's name in the batch file.

