So far I've recveived no real solution other than the following from

Rich Kulawiec:

>

I'd recommend switching to Amanda. Solstice Backup is based on Legato

Networker, one of the most nightmarish and unreliable pieces of software

that it has been my displeasure to deal with during my two decades

of full-time Unix work. I believe you'll find that switching to Amanda

gives you an open-source solution that works across multiple (many, in

fact) platforms and which does not suffer from the flakiness of what

you're trying to use now.

>

Thanks also go to Jeff Kennedy for pointing me to the Networker list

where Amanada seems to be discussed fairly regularly, so there's a bit

more incentive to switch.

(Send 'subscribe networker' tomajordomo@meitca.com)

-adam

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My original question:

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-----Original Message-----

From: adam r. christopher [mailto:adam@du.edu]

Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 2:42 PM

To:networker@meitca.com

Subject: [networker] Trying to script Solstice Backup 4.2.6.a on Solaris

2.6

Hello all,

I'm trying to fully automate tape mounts, media index management,

backups,

and tape unmounts/ejects with a cron job. Has anyone else successfully

done

this? Examples would be more than appreciated.

I used the Solstice gui to create my backup jobs and groups. Thus, in my

script, I run the command:

/usr/sbin/nsr/savegrp default

My biggest problem right now is that the command:

/usr/sbin/nsr/nsrmm -d -v -s hostname

removes all media index entries for all volumes when run in the context

of

a script. I just want to clean index entries for the currently mounted

tape. Any ideas?

Thanks very much; I'll summarize.

-adam