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From: mcitron@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Mark Citron)
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Subject: unattended cpio backup script
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I am running SCO Unix 3.2.0.
I have abandoned doing unattended tar backups of my user's
files in favor of cpio backups (which I hope will be kinder on my
tape drive - it seems to hang often with tar). I was planning to use:

find . -print | cpio -ocvB -K149000 > /dev/rct0 2> /usr/lbin/cpioback.log 

which will be started by crontab and which will produce a log of the 
backup that went on the night before. 
I can then peruse the log the next day and make sure everything went OK
(or write a script to do that for me, daily).

Do I have this backup script correct? Anything you would add?

Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.

-- 
Mark Citron
mark@neurosci.usc.edu