On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:13:59PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
| On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Kirk Whiting wrote:
| =>Im trying to do a backup job to my Jaz Drive with cron and Im having
| =>difficulty. The command Im using is:
| =>38 08 * * 1 find /home/* -print | cpio -orcvdumB > /mnt/jaz
| =>I keep getting " broken pipe "
|
| The broken pipe message can safely be ignored. What's happening is that
| the find command is finishing before the cpio command has processed th
| eend of file. It's normal. Just ignore it.
This is bollocks.
Broken pipe means someone is _writing_ to a pipe when the reading end
has gone. This should never happen with cpio as it reads its input
for filename to archive. I would guess your cpio archive is too big to
fit on a Jaz disc, though I'd normally expect some complaint from cpio
before it dies (like "end of medium").
If you issue that same command from the command line, does it fail likewise?
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