Re: Taper

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

Having asked about running taper and being met by a deafening silence I'm 
beginning to wonder if any of you backup your data ;)

In the hope that some of you do I'll put forward this revised question as 
I've met with some success after plodding on on my own.

I'm trying to run taper as a cron job, with the command (within the 
crontab) of "/sbin/taper -T r -b /dev/sda1 -U  [at] Fileset", having previously 
created the file set "Fileset" with taper. I'm backing up to a 1GB jaz 
drive on /dev/sda1.

The problem is that while taper is being started under cron, it's aborting 
with the error "unable to start backup child". The cron daemon also reports 
this with the additional line "bin/sh: usr/tmp/taperXXXXXX No such file or 
directory" where "taperXXXXXX" would appear to be a temporary file where 
XXXXXX is a different combination of letters and numbers each time, that it 
creates along the way.

Can anyone give me a clue as to what this is about and how I can fix it please?

Cheers muchly

Steve


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