[Nottingham] Re: Tape Backup failure

[James Gibbon]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:24:31 +0100
"David Wolfson" <eaxdrw at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> I had a feeling that might be the case but thought 'Tinker #2'
> indicated it should fit
> 
> --quote--
> Tinker #2- change the scrpit to backup /home locally.  This works and
> gives a tarball of ~2849Mb.  The tapes are 24Gb, so to my mind this
> should fit...--quote--
> 

Sorry, I'd missed that part.  Assuming you're sure the drive is compatible
with that capacity, it would seem you aren't running out of tape.

> Having read a couple of posts (I think elsewhere) about huge e-mails
> from backup crons I was tiptoeing round getting a verbose output, but
> I'll set it up, and change to a local mail...
> 

Well - if you prefer not to get enormous cron mails, you can redirect the
verbose output to a logfile, perhaps in /tmp.