tape drive error

[Charles Farinella]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 15:36, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> Pray tell, what command is being executed when you run your backup?

#!/bin/bash 

# Create backups 
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin 

backupdirs="/var/backups/"

    
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
for path in $backupdirs
do
    echo "System backup on $path" 
    tar cf /dev/nst0 $path 1>/dev/null
    sleep 2
done 

echo "System backups complete, status: $?" 
echo "Now verifying system backups"  

mt -f /dev/st0 rewind 
for path in $backupdirs
do
    echo "Verifying $path...." 
    tar tf /dev/nst0 1>/dev/null && \
        echo "$path: verified" || \
                echo "$path: errors in verify" 

    if [ $? -eq 0 ]
        then echo "$path: verified"
                else echo "$path: error(s) in verify" 1>&2
    fi
    mt -f /dev/st0 fsf 1
done 

mt -f /dev/st0 rewind 

echo "Backup Complete." 

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Charles Farinella 
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cfarinella at AppropriateSolutions.com
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