Tar automation

[pranesh11]

Hi,

I would like schedule weekly backup on my rs/600 server ( aix 4.3) on my tape (rmt0) that is on every friday at 11am . How o i do it.. iam newbie on aix. on solaris i can create a file with the name back.sh within that can give the command tar -cvf /dev/rmt0 /data /home and then in /var/wpool/cron/crontabs/root i can put an entry for the same.. but in aix where can i put the entry for cron i mean in which file and also for every friday at 11am what entery i need to put in cron.. and if the backup is success will i get any messg on some logfile? kindly advice..
thanks

 

[dickiebird]

See Thread822-727466

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[comtec17]

With AIX you can do a mksysb. Do a man on mksysb to get all the options.

 

[pranesh11]

Thanks it was helpful, how do i redirect the o/p to a logfile , i mean error / unsuccessful operation, if tar backup completes it shd say some messg in a logfile and if it fails due to any reason it shd say something else.. how do i do this?, i will create a file called back.sh and put this command tar -cvf /dev/rmt0 /home /var and then i cron i will mention this file name with path with some time for execution, how to redirect success / fail to a logfile..

Thanks

 

[dickiebird]

Add stdout and stderr to your crontab entry:-

00 11 * * 5 back.sh 1>back.log 2>&1

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[pranesh11]

Thanks it was helpful

 

[pranesh11]

Hi,

After entering the cron entry without rebooting howdo i start the cron daemon?, in other flav of unix we can go to /etc/init.d and ./crond start -- this will start the daemon and on AIX 4.3.3 how do i start the daemon manually without rebooting after entering the entry. thanks

 

[sbix]

You should use crontab -e which performs exactly a kill -reset to the cron daemon if there is an update of the crontab

 

[pranesh11]

Hi Sbix,

It was useful and helpful..

Thanks