Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:56:09 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape Message-ID: <3F1C3749.4080203@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030721143437.00aad5b0@mail.anything-inc.com> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030721143437.00aad5b0@mail.anything-inc.com>
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Bob Collins wrote: > I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and > cron and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND > allow user intervention to change the tape. Unfortunately, I believe that is correct, at least for normal tape drives (ones without a tape-silo mechanism or robotic jukebox). > I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The > tape runs to the end, issues the end of tape, and then dump fails. I > would like to be able to change the tape and get a backup. > > Do I need to use some other software, or am I missing a switch or > something somewhere? Run a level-0 backup by hand and swap tapes manually as needed. Then set up an automated level-1 backup via cron, which will hopefully give you a week or two of incremental backups per tape. Or get a larger capacity tape drive, not that such things are free. -- -Chuck
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