tape drive error

[Steven W. Orr]

On Friday, Feb 13th 2004 at 15:44 -0500, quoth 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." 

Besides needing to read from /dev/style, take a look at the tar info page, 
and specifically look at the -b option for setting the blocksize. Also 
look at the mt command with a blank tape in the drive and play with the 
status command and anything else that refers to blocksize.

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