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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tape Serial Number Post 53657 by jorge.ferreira on Wednesday 21st of July 2004 01:44:00 PM
Old 07-21-2004
Hammer & Screwdriver How do I label my tapes?

Ok, this is the deal.

The backup is being made by a tar command, directly to the tape. Something like: tar cvf ./xpto /dev/tape

In this script i check the time of start and end of the script and the amount of files in each directory copied. Each of these informations are being sent to a text file wich is created with the "DayMonthYear.txt" format. Something like 01122004.txt.

Another information i would like to put in these text files is if the backup is being made to the right tape. Because the backup of Friday wouldn't be made to the Wednesday tape. Tapes' got to be chaged daily.

So aparently the trick is to know witch tape is in the drive. If i can label my tapes and then check the label in the script, I would have the problem solved.

That's it,

Thak you for all your replies,


Jorge Ferreira
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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