Re: ONTAPE as cron script (error)

Andreas Thank you very much for your warnings. I am going to change my script in accordance with your advice. For the benefit of the people who have asked for (and got) my script, I am including your advice for the newsgroup as well. } 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. } Thanks again Sujit