RE: Taper

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

Does the same command line operate ok when typed in at the console? I 
believe on my box at home the taper tempfiles are written straight to /tmp 
not /usr/tmp. I've not used taper for a while but may go back to doing so 
since Arkeia seems to have become very iffy about restoring full backups :(

On Monday, April 17, 2000 12:52 PM, Steve Tickle 
[SMTP:s.tickle [at] quarndon.co.uk] wrote:
> 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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