I am investigating fbackup man and help files to see if I can setup fbackup to give feedback at the end of the backup process. this feedback will tell if the backup fail, pass, or have some warnings.
0 upon normal completion. 1 if it is interrupted but allowed to save its state for possible restart. 2 fbackup(err message #)error conditions detected operation incomplete. 4 fbackup(err message #) warning conditions detected operation may have completed.
If you start fbackup like follows you get the exit code in /tmp/your_br_log
# fbackup -f /dev/rmt/0m -I / 2>&1 | tee /tmp/your_br_log #echo $? //returns exit code of fbackup//
I also have an frecover command that will restore a particular file located at the end of the file. By doing that, I am almost 100% positive I will be able to restore from that tape if I need to do it.
As far as verifying that the tape is good, frecover already provides this functionality using the -N option. The man pages detail the process used by frecover. Restoring a single file is a pretty good method but due to fbackup/frecover's use of high speed searc marks, a great deal of tape data is skiped over without being read or verified.
I agree 100% with you. I also use the -N option to verify the tape. It is only an extra step we do just to be able to sleep a little better...:-). You know how it goes.
