Date: 04 Jan 98 12:11:37 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good backup hardware???? Message-ID: <7c8_9801041233@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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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? 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? Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk
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