On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 08:52:27PM -0500, Callahan wrote:
> Just wondering, without RTFM, is someone can tell me how to use cron and
> taper to run automatic backups. I want to do a full system backup once a
> week and a dailey backup of only changed files. I have never used cron
> before, not really sure how.
> Thanks for any help
> Brad
The following WOULD work, if taper had not some problems with
my redhat 5.2 / 6.0 / both kernel 2.2.9 / ditto max external;
unfortunately this is still true for taper 6.9a; well, I already
told this to the taper maintainer, who is very helpful, but up
to now no solution has been able to be found - anyway:
You need to set up 3 things:
1st: /etc/cron.weekly/taper-unattended:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 retension
/usr/local/bin/ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 rewind
/sbin/taper -T zftape -U @set-file-1
/usr/local/bin/ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 retension
/usr/local/bin/ftmt -f /dev/nqft0 rewind
2nd: /root/taper_info/taper_set.set-file-1:
I
/root/
I
/home/
I
/var/log/
I
/etc/
3rd: taper configuration:
Change preferences:
Unattended preferences:
append files: Yes
overwrite unrecognized tapes: Yes
oh, yes, one more point:
I haven't found out how to do a verification under taper unattended mode.
I think this is actually impossible.
(so I myself replaced ditto by tandberg ns 20 pro (scsi streamer) and
taper by afio)
Bye, bye, Juergen.
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