Re: using tar and Storing backup log and list to seperate files.

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 08/07/03

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    Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 08:28:41 -0400

    On 6 Aug 2003 22:46:28 -0700, DukeNM
      <tridentadm@netscape.net> wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I seem to be a little stuck, with no solution.
    > I am making backups of data to tapes and using simple tar commands.
    >
    > what i really want is two seperate files
    > 1) for Logs : mylogs
    > 2) for files : mylist
    > Logs stores the normal stuff like some messages sent to stdout when
    > tar is invoked, then date, time, filesize etc.
    > List should store only the list of files that have been backed up.
    >
    > I found out that
    > tar -cv -R --totals -V MYFILE -f myfile.tar /root/mailz/ > tritar.list
    > gives me what i want for the list
    >
    > and
    > tar -c -R --totals -V MYFILE -f myfile.tar /root/mailz/ 2>&1 |tee -a
    > tritar.log
    > gives me what i want for the logs
    >
    > but this simply means that I have to invoke the command twice simply
    > to send the output to two diff. files. doesnt make sense to do this.
    > instead i wanted it to kind of merge, and send the -v parameter
    > redirect to list and the other to the log.
    >
    > hope i am making sense. :)

    tar -c -R --totals -V MYFILE -f myfile.tar /root/mailz >tritar.list \
      2>tritar.err
    cat tritar.list tritar.err >> tritar.log 

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