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Re: Cygrunsrv and backups
"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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