Topic: Taper Back To Flex Backup

[Todd Pearsall]

Back before I knew about the taper 4GB limit I followed the taper HOW-TO to configure taper on my SME box.  Now that my backup is approaching 4GB I want to switch back to flexbackup.

The HOW-TO has since been taken down, so I don't have the old instruction to try to reverse engineer.  Any suggestions on what I need to do?  

Thanks,
Todd

[Darrell May]

I answered this here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo@lists.e-smith.org/msg09339.html

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From: Darrell May
Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] HowTo remove taper and switch to flexbackup
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 20:16:35 -0700
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Anyone that is currently using taper and wishes to switch back to flexbackup
may follow these steps:

1) visit /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/sbin/e-smith/backup/ and remove any
template fragments related to taper.  Example '30taper'.

# cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/sbin/e-smith/backup/
# ll
# rm 30taper

2) reset /home/e-smith/configuration to use flexbackup

# /sbin/e-smith/config setprop backup Program flexbackup
# /sbin/e-smith/signal-event conf-backup

3) perform an immediate flexbackup to confirm everything is set correctly by
issuing:

# /sbin/e-smith/backup

Regards,

Darrell May

[Todd Pearsall]

Thanks!