Re: How to continue log backups automatically?

curtis@pencom.com (Curtis Preston) writes: >In article ><Pine.BSF.3.91.970617132753.4700C-100000@kilimanjaro.dallas.herald.net>, >From Richard Stanford <richards@herald.net.REMOVE>, the following was >written: > And at least one problem -- you can't run logging again >without > changing the > tape. For that reason, something that ejects >the current tape and > spawns continuous logging might be best, then >your operators wouldn't > be overwriting log tapes. > >Problems like this one, and restarting logs after reboot are all why I >do logs to disk. I have a script that does this automatically, just ask >if you want it. Hold on - you mean to say that if a continuous log backup is left running, it will just keep overwriting from the beginning of the tape each time it has a log to back up? If that's true, what was the point of including this feature in the first place? That doesn't make any sense! -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- The Left Bank Operation -- lbo@leftbank.com http://www.leftbank.com/ "Good literature is about Love and War." "Junk fiction is about Sex and Violence."