well it seems to me that you are erasing the tape every thursday at 14 hours and 21 minutes. Do you backup in the tape? then you will loose the old backup. That's fine, but field 4 () day of month) matches every day, so you will have a backup every day, and an additional backup every friday this also aplies to the deletion of the tape. Im sorry, Im reading the crontab (5) manpages and I cant find how to disable the backup and deletion for every day of month.
Still I hope it's been of some use On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I was wondering if someone could look at this crontab file and tell me > if I've got it right. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# crontab -l > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (- installed on Mon Jul 2 16:23:22 2001) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp > $) > 21 14 * * 5 mt -f /dev/st0 erase > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev / |cpio --create >/dev/st0/root.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /boot |cpio --create>/dev/st0/boot.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /tmp |cpio --create >/dev/st0/tmp.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /usr |cpio --create >/dev/st0/usr.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /var |cpio --create >/dev/st0/var.cpio > 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /home |cpio --create >/dev/st0/home.cpio > > > I'm trying to erase a tape on friday afternoon and then backup the box > saturday night a 2:00 every week. > > what do you guys think? Have I got it right. > > Thanks, > Andy > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
