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We checked the Knowledge Base Article - Progress KB - How to perform unattended backups for databases with capacities larger than the tape/file capacity?. And as per this article, "When PROBKUP process asks for the next backup volume, it simply waits for confirmation that it can proceed: Please enter the next device/file name or type "quit" to exit: At this point, until either a different file name or a device name, is indicated, all online transaction processing will stall. Manually entering the next device or switching tapes is not always possible, as this process is (usually) unattended." Now if the online backup is going to impact the database activities by stalling the database then I would suggest that it will be good if we can check if the space that probkup command calculated is actually available in the filesystem and then start the online backup. This calculation, if the available space on the filesystem is greater than the required space for the backup will not take more time and can save the outage in advance.
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