(Not): Tape-Change Prompt in rsh'd ufsdump

2007-12-25 11:55:00

Earlier, I wrote:

>When running 'ufsdump' of a remote system via 'rsh' to local tape drive,

>end-of-tape causes the dump to abort, pretty much immediately after the

operator prompt to

>insert a new tape appears. Using the '-n' argument to 'rsh' doesn't help.

I had two replies, from Paul Hedgepeth [hedgepethp@yahoo.com] and Roberto

Both replies, however, made it clear I had not properly described my

situation.

We are backing up remote sites (i.e., in other cities), where there is no

one to handle tapes or even enter commands at the console. We've scripted a

series of rsh'd ufsdumps, issued from a single tape host, and our operators

simply run the scripts.

As both Paul and Roberto pointed out, running the ufsdumps from the clients

via remote login would properly handle end-of-tape situations. However,

we'd like not to have the operators doing remote logins to the backup

clients; hence the need to do this via a script. Unfortunately, the scripts

fail at end-of-tape, as described above. Further suggestions welcome.

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