daily backup

[Furmanek, Greg]

1. 
#!/bin/sh
cd /samba; find . -depth -print | /bin/cpio -oa --block-size=512 \
--format=newc --verbose -O /dev/st0 2> /etc/backup/DailyTapeLog

When you redirect stderr you do 2>&1 but this time
you want to redirect to a file therefore:
2> /path/filename

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig White [mailto:craigwhite@azapple.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:54 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: daily backup
> 
> 
> trying to get a basic shell script down...
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cd /samba; find . -depth -print | /bin/cpio -oa --block-size=512 \
> --format=newc --verbose -O /dev/st0 > /etc/backup/DailyTapeLog
> 
> question 1 - how do I direct the 2&>1 output to this file
> /etc/backup/DailyTapeLog?
> 
> question 2 - is there some better scripts / ideas for a SCSI Tape
> backup? I eventually want to have a series of scripts that I 
> can set up
> in cron.
> 
> installed amanda - looks good - a bit of a bother - no webmin module -
> webmin module is good for customer. This is from a cpio module for
> webmin which is rather basic but it gets it done and allows someone to
> point & click restore (file pattenrn matching) if necessary. I did a
> backup and restore to make sure that it works and it actually works.
> 
> Craig
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