On 6/7/2010 5:48 AM, Daniel Mueller wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm doing a weekly tape backup with $Conf{XferMethod} = 'archive' for
> offsite storage, started from cron. This works fine but I would like to
> label the sessions on the tape somehow.
>
> Something like this on the commandline:
>    tar --label="$HOST `date +%y%m%d`" -cf /dev/nst0 .
>
> Is there a way to supply the tar argument --label="" to
> $Conf{ArchiveClientCmd} somehow? Or do I have to modify
> BackupPC_tarCreate and get into Perl programming?
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
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Use the pre-dump command setting for your Archive and have it run a 
script/command that labels the tape. No reason why the label function 
needs to be included in the 'tar' command. Or, since you're initiating 
from cron, why not run a cron job prior to the archive job that labels 
the tape?


Ryan Manikowski



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