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-This is a quick summary of the backup scripts, and some comments on and my config files:
-it's a bit patchy and might have the odd ommission. The canonical
-source is the sources, as always :->
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-WARNING - this file is out of date !
+This is a quick summary of the backup scripts, and some comments on
+some of the config files: it's a bit patchy and might have the odd
+ommission. The canonical source is the sources, as always :->
To run, the contents of /etc/chiark-backup should be:
backup-checkallused: this only does a check of the configuration
files. It should give a cryptic summary of the configuration and
print 'configuration ok'. If not, fix your config files :->
+You have to create the file /var/lib/chiark-backup/last-tape
+containing the id of a tape; this helps backup-checkallused know where
+to start iterating over tapes. Any tapeid will do. (But don't make
+it the same as the one you want to back up to first.)
backup-loaded: this tells the scripts that a currently unlabelled tape
should be treated as tape X: eg:
# Runlevel 5 is set up to run a reduced level of services during
# backups. (currently this means: no squid, no webserver, no newsserver)
# We also run the backup script automatically on entering runlevel 5:
- dm:5:once:/usr/local/lib/backup/driver </dev/tty8 >/dev/tty8 2>&1
+ dm:5:once:backup-driver </dev/tty8 >/dev/tty8 2>&1
* takedown can be run from the command line or via cron.