mksysb script

From: Pipiron (pipiron0309_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/13/03 

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:01:23 +0200

Dear colleagues,

I should schedule mksysb on AIX 4.3.3 machine every day at the same time.
Also should have record in a log file about backup and status of backup. So
I made following script:

bkup_ skripta

#!/bin/ksh
mv /tmp/bkup/mksysb.log /tmp/bkup/YYYYMMDD.mksysb.log
/usr/bin/mksysb -i /dev/rmt0
mt -f /dev/rmt0 rewoffl

In Cron

1) crontab -e
2) 22 05 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /tmp/bkup/bkup_ skripta>> /tmp/bkup/mksysb.log > 2&1

This last line in Cron should report error if occurs. But, all the time I
have logs with nothing in it (size 0), even if error occurs.
Now I am not a guru for scripting, so I would really appreciate if someone
can help me about following:
how can I have logs with status of backup in it. That means I should have
something like

20030625.mksysb.log and in it either "Backup finished successfully" either
"Backup finished with errors"

Thanks in advance

PJ

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