Thanks Charlie. Updated my HowTo to reflect your suggestions.
Again, comments welcomed.
Regards,
Darrell
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:21 PM
> To: Darrell May
> Cc: John Bennett; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Taper HOWTO (was RE: [e-smith-devinfo] More flexbackup I/O
> errors)
>
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Darrell May wrote:
>
> > Charlie Brady wrote:
> > <...>
> > > Taper obviously works for some where flexbackup doesn't.
> > <...>
> >
> > I've created and posted this HowTo:
> >
> > http://netsourced.com/e-smith/howto-taper.html
> >
> > As always, I'm sure there may be a better way to accomplish
> > the desired result of switching to use Taper instead of
> > flexbackup. This seemed the simplest to implement and allow
> > the e-smith-manager functions (except tape restore), and
> > even my custom 'Backup Now' function to work with taper.
> >
> > I'm not advocating this switch. I feel flexbackup is the
> > better e-smith choice but if for whatever reason flexbackup
> > doesn't work for your hardware, this is a built-in
> > alternative that can easily be implemented.
> >
> > Comments, hints, suggestions are always welcomed.
>
> Rather than replace 30flexbackup (as you effectively do by creating a
> custom-template of that name), leave it intact, and instead
> create a file
> 30taper containing your text.
>
> /usr/sbin/taper -T scsi -U / -p /root/taper/taper_prefs
>
> Then do:
>
> /sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop backup Program taper
> /sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
>
> For extra marks, change 30taper to:
>
> {
> use esmith::db;
>
> local %services = (
> backup => $backup,
> );
>
> my $program = db_get_prop(\%services, 'backup', 'Program');
>
> $OUT .=
> (defined $program && $program eq 'flexbackup')
> ? "/usr/sbin/taper -T scsi -U / -p
> /root/taper/taper_prefs"
> : "# taper is not enabled as the backup Program";
> }
>
> This will allow you to change from taper to flexbackup and
> v.v. as fashion
> dictates.
>
> For full marks, template your taper_prefs file to support
> both SCSI and
> native IDE tape drive devices (the Device property of the "backup"
> service).
>
> Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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