fbackup with multiple tapes in an autodat

[Michael Warren Ogle]

We have a cron job running fbackup with a config file set to switch tapes to the next tape at a change volume. The script to change tapes works, however, fbackup continues to prompt for a "yes" when the next tape is ready. The use of a "-y" is not desired, because we want to fail the backup on an fbackup error. Is there any way to get fbackup to switch AFTER the tape is swapped? Also, is there any way to abort fbackup when the tape switch occurs?

[Pornsak Lamaimuang]

You can specify other programs or shell scripts to run when fbackup need to change volumes or encounter the errors. By using option "-c configfile" with parameters in configfile are chgvol and error. More info pls "man fbackup".

Pornsak Lamaimuang.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
Why not split the data over multiple backup routines so that the data for each set is under the tape size.

Write a check script to see if first Fbackup is finished - if so then -change tape and then set of backup two ---- and so on.

HTH

Paula