omniback II & cron problem

[Konstantin Reznik]

I have Omniback II(release A.04.10) installed on HP-UX 11.00.When I use uma utility
with command file at the command line all works properly,but in cron job
it can't work.
Any suggestions?

[BR19682 · Accepted solution]

Hi there.
Your question should be posted in HP-UX.
If you use uma, i guess, you have a tape library or something with a robot arm.
Why do you use uma ? Did you not configure your transport device properly ?
Do you not use OmniBack for backups ?
If yes, OmniBack controls the transport device, so you don't have to care about tapes inserted into drives.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[BR19682]

Hi there.
Sorry, forgot something.
In the ITRC there is a document KBAN00000190
about the configuration of a tape library under HP-UX 11.0 .
This contains the necessary info.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Konstantin Reznik]

Hi,Alexander.
Yes,I use autoloader 1/9.
Uma is convenient utility for
tape manipulation when tar program used.uma works properly at the command line.It means that transport device was configured properly,I guess.The only problem that uma don't work in
cron job.I don't use OmniBack for backups.I use tar instead.
Thanx for information.

[Andre Lemon]

What does your cron look like? how is your
uma command stated in your crontab file?


Andre'

[Konstantin Reznik]

Hi Andre.
My cron file looks like:
0 * * * * echo "move d1 s8"|/opt/omni/lbin/uma -ioctl /dev/robot.
I use cron jobs many years and
all my cron jobs work fine but I don't know
what is going wrong in this case.May be the problem in PATH or SHELL variable?

[BR19682]

Hi there.
Here an extract from the uma manpages :

2. To let uma execute a batch script of its own commands, simply
redirect it's stdin to a file containing a list of uma commands
separated with newlines:

cat >/tmp/cmdFile

inq

addr

stat



uma -ioctl /dev/spt/sctl0 /tmp/outFile

END OF EXTRACT

Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

BTW you should think about using OmniBack.
Very effective

[Fredrik Nygren_1]

Hi Konstantin,

Maybe you have solved this on your own, but I ran into the same problem and for me it worked after I added the -tty switch.

So your cronjob should be changed from:

0 * * * * echo "move d1 s8"|/opt/omni/lbin/uma -ioctl /dev/robot

to:

0 * * * * echo "move d1 s8"|/opt/omni/lbin/uma -ioctl /dev/robot -tty

It worked for me so it might be worth a try.

// Fredrik