From: Don Sharp <dwsharp@iee.org>
To: gnuwin32 <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cygrunsrv and backups
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CCAAC81.926192B0@iee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <229D7C0FE0BED311A0E800805F0DD471010D2DC0@wn01ex.wn.gb.solvay.com>
"Craveiro, Marco" wrote:
>
> oh mate, thanks for that, could have saved me hours of digging -
> unfortunately i receive the cygwin digest at the end of the day :-( need to
> change that.
>
> anyway, there's just one thing i dont understand on your script:
>
> mt -f /dev/nst0 tell
>
> why do you need this?
>
One doesn't strictly need it. I use it to tell me how near to a full
tape I am using so I reshuffle what goes on which tape when it proves
necessary.
A further point of note is that one should no longer do mounts of tape
devices. For a while now they have been automatically available as
/dev/[n]st[01..] if present on the system. Look it up in the archives
around early to mid-November last year.
Cheers
Don Sharp
> cheers!
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don Sharp [SMTP:dwsharp@iee.org]
> > Sent: 26 April 2002 06:09
> > To: gnuwin32
> > Subject: Re: Cygrunsrv and backups
> >
> > If you have experience of backing up using tar on Unix then you can do
> > the same with cygwin. Tape positioning with "mt" on the no-rewind
> > editions of the tape device (e.g. /dev/nst0).
> >
> > My backup script looks like
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/sh
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 status
> > echo "Archive T: starting at `date`"
> > cd /dost
> > tar cf /dev/nst0 *
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 tell
> > sleep 30
> > echo "Archive D: starting at `date`"
> > cd /cygdrive/d
> > tar cf /dev/nst0 *
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 tell
> > sleep 30
> > echo "Archive finished at `date`"
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl
> >
> > The sleeps may not be necessary but I have had problems in the pass with
> > streaming tapes when I haven't include them.
> >
> > Hope that helps
> >
> > Don Sharp
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-27 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-26 11:01 Craveiro, Marco
2002-04-27 7:38 ` Don Sharp [this message]
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2002-04-29 4:48 Craveiro, Marco
2002-04-29 6:14 ` Don Sharp
2002-04-29 2:46 Craveiro, Marco
2002-04-29 3:35 ` Don Sharp
2002-04-26 15:41 Heribert Dahms
2002-04-26 8:53 Craveiro, Marco
2002-04-26 4:27 Craveiro, Marco
2002-04-26 6:11 ` Charles Wilson
2002-04-26 7:02 ` Don Sharp
2002-04-26 2:32 Craveiro, Marco
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