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Re: [PLUG] tar and tape problem
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have you ever thought about using amanda to do your backups?
http://www.amanda.org
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 12:15, Marc Zucchelli wrote:
> I found the cause of the problem, damaged filesystem,
> I fixed it. Just one more question.
>
> I am automating this tape backup with a nightly cron
> job. I would like to make sure the tape is rewound
> before I write to it obviously, whenever I run mt
> rewind, it returns me to the shell prompt right away.
> How would I know if the tape is actually still
> rewinding before I make the call to tar? On the other
> hand, sometimes, when doing it manually, I will put
> the tape in, and run tar, it gives me an error
> message, but I try it again a minute later and it's
> fine, I'm guessing that the tape is preparing itself
> in some way during this period. How can I make my
> script know if the tape is actually ready to be
> written to, and rewound?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Marc
>
>
> > Tar: Error exit delayed previous errors
>
>
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