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- From: paraska@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Paraska)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: How can I do an automatic backup?
- Message-ID: <22828@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 13:31:37 GMT
- Reply-To: paraska@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Peter Paraska)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- I have a 4-mm DAT tape drive on a 4D/30 PI. I wish to have the backup
- program do a backup in the evening without any user intervention. I
- figure I should put something in the crontab script, but don't know
- how to go about doing this. Any help (example script) would be appreciated.
-
- I ran the backup script from the toolbox on a new out-of-the-box DAT
- tape to see if things were working when I recently installed the tape
- drive. When I executed the backup tool, the tape drive spun for
- a while with the list of files in the backup window stalled. After
- a while, the tape stopped spinning and a message box appeared saying
- that tape 1 was full and to insert tape 2. Since only about 20K worth
- of files had scrolled by in the backup window, I knew that tape 1 was
- not full. So I just hit the "accept" button to overwrite tape
- 1. I don't know if this backup was successful.
-
- What bothers me is that user intervention was needed to do the backup,
- i.e., I had to fool the program into thinking I had inserted tape 2.
- If this is the way the backup script is going to work with the DAT drive,
- I don't think my plans for an automatic unattended backup will be fruitful.
-
- Any ideas in this?
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