Topic: Backup: Remember to load the backup tape!

[Gaetan]

Hi,

I am using E-Smith 4.1.2
We've been using it for 6 months now, running a backup every night.
In the administratiuon panel, I have set up the backup to run at 02:00 AM each night and ask E-Smith to remind me to load the tape at 16H00 every day.
Believe it or not, the reminder thing only worked the first time last Friday. Until then, I never got any messages asking me to put a tape in the drive.
What was wrong then ? Can soneome tell me ?

Strnage thing ... The next day backup did not work for some reasons (a tape was loaded !!!).
I got the following message:

Backup aborted: No tape loaded

Why can it find a tape suddenly ?
(The server has been running about 80 days without restarting. I did switch it off this morning and hope that the backup will run ok tonight.

If you have any ideas, please help.

Thanks.

Gaetan

[Lasse Johansson]

I think the command is set only to send that message if the tape drive does not contain a tape already

[Gaetan]

The tape was in the drive ... So, I shoudn't get this message !

GaetanLasse Johansson wrote:
>
> I think the command is set only to send that message if the
> tape drive does not contain a tape already

[Jon Thiele]

Gaetan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using E-Smith 4.1.2
> We've been using it for 6 months now, running a backup every
> night.
> In the administratiuon panel, I have set up the backup to run
> at 02:00 AM each night and ask E-Smith to remind me to load
> the tape at 16H00 every day.
> Believe it or not, the reminder thing only worked the first
> time last Friday. Until then, I never got any messages asking
> me to put a tape in the drive.

the only time i get a reminder message is the first time after a reboot.  i've never bothered to find out what was wrong.  

>Strnage thing ... The next day backup did not work for some >reasons (a tape was loaded !!!).
>I got the following message:

>Backup aborted: No tape loaded

you can always do an immediate backup by issuing the command:

/sbin/e-smith/backup