Hi! Only used fork a few times so bare with me. I want to kick off a backup process then once it completes kick off another process. This sample script start its own process and waits. I want to mimic it. Where would I put my backup command, then the other commands to follow? 
use strict;
use warnings;
 # Fork child process
 my  $pid = fork();

############################################################
 is this how? --> die "cannot fork: $!" unless defined($pid = open(KID
+_TO_READ, "-|", "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbackup ..."); 
############################################################

 # Check if parent/child process
 if ($pid)
 { # Parent
   print "Started child process id: $pid\n";
 }
 elsif ($pid == 0)
 { # Child
   sleep 30; # Example child process
   exit 0;  # It is STRONGLY recommended to exit your child process
            # instead of continuing to run the parent script.
 }
 else
 { # Unable to fork
   die "ERROR: Could not fork new process: $!\n\n";
 }

 ###############################

 print "Waiting for the child process to complete...\n";
 waitpid ($pid, 0);
 print "The child process has finished executing.\n\n";

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