Bugfixes.

[chiark-utils.git] / backup / iwjbackup.txt

diff --git a/backup/iwjbackup.txt b/backup/iwjbackup.txt
index 91c904c87ea69eb70aeb602feb4fcb245fc51285..4ee23545b62140e47dceabf659a51495ee43683f 100644 (file)
--- a/backup/iwjbackup.txt
+++ b/backup/iwjbackup.txt
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ Useful scripts (all in /usr/bin):
 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: