From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 07:57:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E9A37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anyfloridahome.com (adsl-068-153-193-052.sip.bct.bellsouth.net [68.153.193.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5063E43F75 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@anything-inc.com) Received: from neo.anything-inc.com [68.153.193.50] by anyfloridahome.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.00) id A224A800C4; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:03:00 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030722105049.00a98b88@mail.anything-inc.com> X-Sender: bob@anything-inc.com@mail.anything-inc.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:54:48 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Bob Collins In-Reply-To: <200307211452.06751.mbettinger@championelevators.com> References: <004701c34fba$957db220$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <200307211848.h6LImK7k017081@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <004701c34fba$957db220$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:57:32 -0000 At 03:52 PM 7/21/2003, Matthew Bettinger wrote: >On Monday 21 July 2003 02:02 pm, Mike Maltese wrote: > > >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. > > >I use bacula for my home lan and fbackup on hpux. > >bacula uses a mysql database to keep track of your tapes (which I >thought was very cool) Thanks to all who addressed my question. Further study showed, obviously, there is no way to let dump be interactive from cron, regardless of switches. So, I shall research bacula, amanda, screen, and tar, and to get going immediately, I'll run a manual 0 level dump and then cron for level 1 for a bit. I do have a couple of BIG files which will not be updating, so once on tape, they will be fine. Again thanks to all for the help and suggestions. Great email list. -- Bob