Re: Question about backups

From: Bill (bjverzal_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: 29 Sep 2004 11:01:54 -0700

andrew.russell@gmail.com (Andrew Russell) wrote in message news:<8f5bd912.0409290641.4fa752f@posting.google.com>...
> I backup 200,000 files with this command.
>
> find . -print | backup -i -q -f /dev/rmt0 >> /tmp/backup.log
>
> How do I know that the backup is successful?
>
> I have tried the -v option for verbosity, but that lists everyfile it
> backed up. I don't need a 2 meg text file every night.
>
> I have looked at using the tapechk or the restore -T command to verify
> the tape integrity afterwards, but the restore -T is too verbose.
>
> Tapechk is giving me an error message when I ask it to check more than
> 3 files.
>
> Does Tapecheck check on a per file basis or a per section basis.
>
> Any help given would be much appreciated.

After the backup command, if $? > 0 then backup failed.

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