unattended cpio backup script

[Bill Heiser]

>In article <28789 at usc> mcitron at phad.hsc.usc.edu (Mark Citron) writes:
>| 
>| find . -print | cpio -ocvB -K149000 > /dev/rct0 2> /usr/lbin/cpioback.log 
>| 
>| Do I have this backup script correct? Anything you would add?
>

I do ours a little differently -- I do a find piped to cpio like you do 
(but haven't used -K, I'll have to check on that one) -- but instead of
directing verbose output to a logfile, I don't use -v.  Instead, once
the tape has been written, I rewind it and read it back, creating a journal
file at that time.  This way I get a journal file AND verify that I can
at least read through the tape (although I don't think this actually
verifies that I can restore any specific file, but I've never had that
kind of problem).  


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