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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 01:07:14 +0100
From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
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To: Leif Neland <leifn@image.dk>
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Subject: Re: Good backup hardware????
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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