X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?p=chiark-utils.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=backup%2Fiwjbackup.txt;h=4ee23545b62140e47dceabf659a51495ee43683f;hp=91c904c87ea69eb70aeb602feb4fcb245fc51285;hb=104ec3d498226ed072d991f03c641fc45d92a1ca;hpb=17fb3a3831ca812a3ad384f4eec3b977432facd9

diff --git a/backup/iwjbackup.txt b/backup/iwjbackup.txt
index 91c904c..4ee2354 100644
--- 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: