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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Backup method Post 9794 by rwb1959 on Friday 2nd of November 2001 03:28:22 PM
Old 11-02-2001
You seem to be asking to do confilcting things...

automated, multi-volume backup with cpio and do it in cron job

...the problem is that if you were to redirect output of cpio...

find / -depth -print | cpio -ovcBK 1200 -O /dev/rfd096ds15 > /dev/console 2>&1

...if you run this from cron, you will not have a controlling tty
and cpio will not be "reading" from the tty you are at.

I might suggest using some other backup utility. Take a look at...
http://www.backupcentral.com/software-backup.html

...you might find somthing that suits you here.
 

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cpio.h(3HEAD)                                                         Headers                                                        cpio.h(3HEAD)

NAME
cpio.h, cpio - cpio archive values SYNOPSIS
#include <cpio.h> DESCRIPTION
Values needed by the c_mode field of the cpio archive format are described as follows: Name Description C_IRUSR Read by owner C_IWUSR Write by owner C_IXUSR Execute by owner C_IRGRP Read by group C_IWGRP Write by group C_IXGRP Execute by group C_IROTH Read by others C_IWOTH Write by others C_IXOTH Execute by others C_ISUID Set user ID C_ISGID Set group ID C_ISVTX On directories, restricted deletion flag C_ISDIR Directory C_ISFIFO FIFO C_ISREG Regular file C_ISBLK Block special C_ISCHR Character special C_ISCTG Reserved C_ISLNK Symbolic link C_ISSOCK Socket The header defines the symbolic constant: MAGIC "070707" ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
pax(1), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 10 Sep 2004 cpio.h(3HEAD)
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