[OT] mondoarchive via cron - how do you know if it completed correctly?

From: Benjamin J. Weiss (benjamin_at_weiss.name)
Date: 01/26/04

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:50:24 -0600

    Sorry about the OT post, but I couldn't find the answer to this on google
    and I didn't want to join yet another list for a single question.

    I've been using mondoarchive for awhile now for interactive backup to CD's.
    We put in a tape drive and I set it up to backup to tape every night by
    writing a very simple script and putting it in /etc/cron.daily (the script
    is shown below). The problem is that I get a 6k log file each morning
    (apparently mondo over-writes the /var/log/mondo-archive.log file each time
    it runs) and I can't see a line that will definitely state whether the
    backup has worked or failed.

    I've placed last night's log file here:
    http://www.osbi.state.ok.us/mondo-archive.txt

    I *think* that the line near the bottom reading "Data archived OK" *might*
    be ok, but the one a few lines above reading
    "ALL ARCHIVES HAVE BEEN READ IN AND WRITTEN" might do the trick as well.

    Are there any cron/tape mondo users out there?

    Thanks!

    Ben
    ---------------------
    #!/bin/bash

    # bash shell script to do a full backup to tape
    # 21 January 2004 - Benjamin J. Weiss
    #
    # This script does a full backup of non-temporary filesystems,
    # then rewinds the tape.
    #
    # Options below:
    # -O : Do a backup, not a verify.
    # F : Do not ask to make a boot floppy
    # t : Backup to tape
    # d /dev/st0 : Use the tape device and rewind after backup (nst0
    would not rewind)
    # -l GRUB : The bootloader that we're using
    # -f /dev/sda : The drive that the boot loader is on
    # -E "path" : Directories to exclude from the backp.

    # modified path so that mondoarchive can find mindi, etc
    PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

    /usr/local/bin/mondoarchive -OFtd /dev/st0 -l GRUB -f /dev/sda -E "/tmp
    /dev /mnt /proc"

    # set path back to what cron expects
    PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin 

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