I forgot to mention, within the scriptbom.backup.long.sh, gbak, gsec are being run verbosely and chucking out loads of information. I capture a short log in the script and ">>/home/firebird/logs/bom.backup.`date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M` log 2>&1" is a long log to capture all messages.

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Hi

On a *nix I pipe gstat,gbak, gsec out to a file example /home/firebird/scripts/bom.backup.long.sh >>/home/firebird/logs/bom.backup.`date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M` log 2>&1

nb. this is from a crontab and the date values are escaped.

The resultant log file I monitor occassionally with "tail -f ", which just updates the console with each line appended to the file

No idea of equivalent of windows, but with powershell the must be a way.
Just not an expert with powershell.

alex

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