RE: Taper

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

Steve - from the Taper FAQ at http://www.e-survey.net.au/taper/ :
For some reason, when cron runs a job, it doesn't put /sbin on the path, 
and therefore, taper can't find its children which are in /sbin. The 
solution is to move taper, bg_backup and bg_restore to /bin or put links in 
/bin to point to the entries in /sbin. Newer versions of taper will 
automatically do this with make install.

> I'm trying to run taper as a cron job, with the command (within the
> crontab) of "/sbin/taper -T r -b /dev/sda1 -U  [at] Fileset", having 
previously
> created the file set "Fileset" with taper. I'm backing up to a 1GB jaz
> drive on /dev/sda1.
>
> The problem is that while taper is being started under cron, it's 
aborting
> with the error "unable to start backup child". The cron daemon also 
reports
> this with the additional line "bin/sh: usr/tmp/taperXXXXXX No such file 
or
> directory" where "taperXXXXXX" would appear to be a temporary file where
> XXXXXX is a different combination of letters and numbers each time, that 
it
> creates along the way.


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