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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Handling tape errors in script Post 302777279 by landog on Thursday 7th of March 2013 02:37:34 PM
Old 03-07-2013
Handling tape errors in script
AIX 7.1
Here's the script
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
find . -print > filelist.txt
backup -ivqf/dev/rmt0 < filelist.txt > backup.log
if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
    echo "Backup to tape failed!" >> backup.log
else
   echo "Backup to tape successfull!" >> backup.log
fi
mail -v -s "Backup report" maillist < backup.log

I'd run this from cron.
But for now, while I'm testing the first time I ran it I got this message on the console:
Code:
backup: 0511-089 Cannot open /dev/rmt0: The input or output media is write-protected.
Mount volume 1 on /dev/rmt0.
        Press Enter to continue.

If I had such an error running from cron, no one would see it.
How can I handle this situation?

Thanks,
-dog
 

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mkbom

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

     mkbom [-s] directory bom
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     mkbom -h | --help

DESCRIPTION

     The mkbom command creates a bill-of-materials (bom(5)).  You must specify either a source as a directory, or a text file containing a file
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