Bugfixes.

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

diff --git a/backup/iwjbackup.txt b/backup/iwjbackup.txt
index ff4d860e35fda97cf23fa06b74d0779eadcc2c58..4ee23545b62140e47dceabf659a51495ee43683f 100644 (file)
--- a/backup/iwjbackup.txt
+++ b/backup/iwjbackup.txt
@@ -2,12 +2,9 @@ iwjbackup.txt
 documentation file
 Copyright - AND NO WARRANTY - see notes at bottom of file for details.
 
-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 :->
-
-
-WARNING - this file is out of date !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:
@@ -99,6 +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:
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ To use this you'll need to configure init:
   # 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.