Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 01:07:14 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> To: Leif Neland <leifn@image.dk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good backup hardware???? Message-ID: <34B02432.5736459F@partitur.se> References: <7c8_9801041233@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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Leif Neland wrote: > > At 03 Jan 98 16:53:14 Palle Girgensohn wrote regarding Re: Good backup > hardware???? > > PG> Hello Jason, > PG> > PG> I'm in a similar situation. What happens for you is that the > PG> tape has reached the end (my guess; I get write errors when I > PG> reach end-of-tapes), and is trying to tell you this on the tty; > PG> "fopen on /dev/tty" means that it cannot talk to a console, > PG> probably because you're running it from cron, or detached the > PG> dump process from the tty. > PG> > PG> AFAIK, you can't run dump from cron, at least not directly. (I'd > PG> like to hear from you folks! How do you make automated dumps?) > > how about dump -options 2>&1 >/var/log/dumplog, or some variation of this? > Well, no problem unless dump gets trouble and needs help... :-) > PG> Dump needs user interaction when an error or end-of-tape occurs, > PG> or it will get suspended or fail. Hence, it must be started from > PG> a console. I guess one could make a script that runs on the > PG> console and sleeps during the day...? Or maybe let cron attach > PG> the dump command to a console (better, but how,and is it > PG> possible?). > > Is it perhaps possible to run it instead of getty on a non-active virtual > terminal? Interesting. How would I go about? To do this? Regards, Palle
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