Check the permissions on /dev/st0 what group owns that device? Add the backuppc user to the tape group (or whoever the owning group of the device is) -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Y
yes I had thought of that too and have already added the backuppc user to the "tape" group. permissions are 660 or rw-rw-- with owner root and group tape. Also the backuppc documentation and even the
Author: Chris Robertson <crobertson AT gci DOT net>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:30:19 -0800
The are "file test operators". See http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/fto.html for a pretty extensive (and annotated) list. If the file identified by the variable $outLoc is a regular file, OR a block devi
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:47:59 -0500
/dev/st? devices rewind the tape on open and close, so you can't write anywhere but the beginning. /dev/nst? devices only rewind on insertion and removal. If you have small archives you can add more
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 01:15:39 +0200
Hi, Jeff Rippy wrote on 2008-08-01 12:48:46 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] archive problem]: "that" being? The permission problem Les and I had pointed you at? I presume you didn't forget to restart the
configuration uses /dev/st0 so why exactly do you recommend /dev/nst0 instead. Shouldn't backuppc be controlling where it writes to the tape? /dev/st? devices rewind the tape on open and close, so y
Hi, Jeff Rippy wrote on 2008-08-01 12:48:46 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] archive problem]: "that" being? The permission problem Les and I had pointed you at? I presume you didn't forget to restart the
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:41:08 -0500
Backuppc doesn't know if you want more than one thing on the tape. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build t
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 01:44:41 +0200
Hi, Chris Robertson wrote on 2008-08-01 10:30:19 -0800 [Re: [BackupPC-users] archive problem]: without wanting to be too pedantic, I think it should be pointed out that the quoted page describes the
Hi all, I have a Ubuntu 8.04 and BackupPC 3.x.x setup with an LTO-1 drive. When I go to archive a host I get the following error: Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost /usr/share/ba
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:58:42 +0200
Hi, Jeff Rippy wrote on 2008-07-31 06:58:46 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] archive problem]: no, it looks like the shells output redirection is trying to create /dev/st0 after BackupPC_archiveHost had alrea
no, it looks like the shells output redirection is trying to create /dev/st0 after BackupPC_archiveHost had already determined that it exists. Strangely, my /bin/sh *never* says "cannot create", onl
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:10:51 -0500
The shell doesn't have much to do with this except possibly giving you the wrong error message. The real problem is almost certainly that the backuppc user doesn't have write permission on /dev/st0 (