Re: ONTAPE as cron script (error)

Hi, We use a very similar approach as you do and since you were so nice to the community I would like to warn you of problems with your script. kill -9 $bgpid is very dangerous, since it could cut off some pages from the end of the backup. You need to replace the line with: wait $bgpid This will wait for gzip to finish after the pipe is closed by ontape. I also use split -b512m after the gzip, because our backups are larger than 2 Gb. We also use gzip --fast because it compresses nearly as good and gives much better performance. best regards Andreas