where are back up error messages stored?

[bob the spod]

I have noticed that our back up tapes have been failing on a couple of occasions. A fellow spod told me to check the error messages.
Where are these usually stored?
answers on the back of a postage stamp please

bobby spoddy (mr blipblopkapoo to his friends)

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

It depends upon how your backup is done,

Tar
Cpio
Fbackup

etc
More info is therefore required.

Paula

[The Real MD]

If your backup is started in cron then you can redirect the out put to a file in /tmp/backup.log

Regards

Martin.

[Mobeen_1]

Bob,
Where the messages are stored depends on what means you are deploying to carry out the backups.

As some one mentioned if you are using scripts to do your backups, then normally the practise is to pipe the log to /tmp/backup.log or something similar to this.

If you are using some clients like the TSM Client or Veritas or any other then the logs could be found else where.

Do let us know how you are carrying out your backups.

If you are just doing a command line backup, i am afraid that you will not have any logs, unless you specified.

regards
Mobeen

[Mario Cervantes]

I Bobby

If cron your backups by SAM, you can read your logs by mail, or you can check /var/sam/log/sam.log to see what happend.

Reggards

Mario Cervantes