On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > Having major learning grief trying to solve issues with backup scripts. The > core utility used in these scripts is "afio." The grief comes from scripts > that barf out giving us a statuscode but damn if I can find the magic > decoder ring that expands those codes into something useful. Even "probable > user error, correct and resubmit" would be progress...
My reading of the source suggests that occasionally it will spit out an exit code of 2 for a corrupt archive, but otherwise, it will only ever return a status code of 0 (for successful) or 1 (which is for all errors). The description for the utiltiy suggests that it is cpio-compatible. > Tape backup works sometimes. Backup to usb disk fails every time. Huh? Is the USB disk mounted correctly? Note that you need to use a file for this, which a tape device already is, but a USB disk would require it to be mounted, have a filesystem on it, and be writing to a file on the filesystem. USB disks are block-level devices, not character devices. -Tilghman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
