Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!nosun!qiclab!m2xenix!quagga!ctk1!proxima!zeusa!hendrik From: hendrik@zeusa.UUCP (Hendrik Vermooten) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Forcing good backup procedures Summary: Re: my original posting Message-ID: <871@zeusa.UUCP> Date: 14 Nov 90 05:16:26 GMT References: <867@zeusa.UUCP> <1694@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Organization: ZEUS software, Verwoerdburg Lines: 38 Re: my original posting about "Forcing good backup procedures" In article <1694@chinacat.Unicom.COM>, chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes: > You've got a bigger problem than getting backups made - you need to fix > an attitude problem. That's for sure! > Just this week, they ran out of disk space because nobody watches the df's. I've written a cron/script that mails a warning. Anybody interested? > Chip Rosenthal Thanx, Chip. I also received some mail in the same vein. Thanks to all. I didn't really describe the problem fully. These 20 systems are at separate places *hundreds of miles* away from anything. Top management of the company have made many attempts to improve the problem, and it has. It's just that there are still problems sometimes, and it would be nice to solve the problems before they actually lose data. I will impress upon them that it is an attitude program again, but they still want the labeling program. (BTW, I have received two mails with shell scripts that help solve the problem [thanx Sean Enraght-Moony and Alan Mintz]. If anybody is interested let me know & I'll post 'em) --------------------- He who laughs last laughs last --------------------- Hendrik Vermooten, ZEUS software TEL +27 12 64-5507, FAX +27 12 64-8382 Bang: ..!uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!zeusa!hendrik or hendrik@zeusa.UUCP ----------------- He whose laugh lasts longest laughs last --------------- -- --------------------- He who laughs last laughs last --------------------- Hendrik Vermooten, ZEUS software TEL +27 12 64-5507, FAX +27 12 64-8382 Bang: ..!uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!zeusa!hendrik or hendrik@zeusa.UUCP ----------------- He whose laugh lasts longest laughs last ---------------