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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: dump and restore from cron
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.114356@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 90 16:43:56 GMT
References: <3122@uc.msc.umn.edu>
Reply-To: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
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Well, sometimes what Digital tells you might not really be totally
accurate.  Iknow this is shocking to many of you... :-)

We do this with a shell script.  Crontab entry looks like:

0 18 * * * /var/adm/manager/rootbkup

the shell script is basically (I took out all the nice problem
checks, mounting, etc. for this example):

dump 0uf - / | (cd /bck ; restore xf -)         >/dev/console

Now...  I only made it a shell script to add the mounts, 
unmounts, logging, etc.  The trick is to send your output to the
console, then /dev/tty means something.

Fred