Re: [OT] mondoarchive via cron - how do you know if it completed correctly?

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On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 08:50, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

> I've been using mondoarchive for awhile now for interactive backup to CD's.
> We put in a tape drive and I set it up to backup to tape every night by
> writing a very simple script and putting it in /etc/cron.daily (the script
> is shown below).  The problem is that I get a 6k log file each morning
> (apparently mondo over-writes the /var/log/mondo-archive.log file each time
> it runs) and I can't see a line that will definitely state whether the
> backup has worked or failed.

> /usr/local/bin/mondoarchive -OFtd /dev/st0  -l GRUB -f /dev/sda -E "/tmp
> /dev /mnt /proc"

Just append "&& echo SUCCESS", or something to that effect to the end of
that line.  It only echoes upon success of the previous command.

-- 
Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net


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