yls177 <yls177@hotmail.com> wrote:
> fbackup(1517): /net not backed up - 'n' option (NFS) not specified
> fbackup(3203): volume 1 has been used 0 time(s)
> fbackup(3024): writing volume 1 to the output file /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BEST
> fbackup(3003): normal EOT
> fbackup(3316): enter '^[yY]' when volume 2 is ready on
> /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BEST,
> or '^[nN]' to discontinue:
> fbackup(3004): writer aborting
> fbackup(1002): Backup did not complete : Reader or Writer process exit
> Not a terminal
> stty: : Not a typewriter
> Not a terminal
> stty: : Not a typewriter
>
> my understanind is that the tape storage was full and the system watns
> another tape and since this is coming from a cron entry then naturally
> it fails.
>
> am i right?

Yes

> also, i wanted to rectify the issue by selecting the filesystems to be
> backuped up, however, in my script, i only have
>
> "fbackup -f /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BEST -i /"
>
> how to achieve so? by replacing / with the list of filesystems to be
> backed up?

If you include "/", you also include all filesystems below "/". So if
you only want to backup "/", but not the filesystems below it, then you
have to specifically exclude those other filesystems. This is easiest
with the "-g graphfile" option, where graphfile is a file which contains
the includes and excludes, i.e.

graphfile:
==========
i /
e /mnt1
....
e /mntx

See the fbackup(1M) manual page for details.