Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <229D7C0FE0BED311A0E800805F0DD471010D2E8A@wn01ex.wn.gb.solvay.com> From: "Craveiro, Marco" To: "'Sisira Jayasinghe'" , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: trying to mount a DAT drive on Cygwin running on Windows 98 2 nd Ed Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:31:51 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Hello Sisira, You should search the archives on that one. I had the same problem (not knowing how to backup with Cygwin) not so long ago and managed to get great answers from the list. Attached is the most relevant Message but make a search for the full discussion. Soup++ -----Original Message----- From: Don Sharp [SMTP:dwsharp AT iee DOT org] Sent: 26 April 2002 06:09 To: gnuwin32 Subject: Re: Cygrunsrv and backups If you have experience of backing up using tar on Unix then you can do the same with cygwin. Tape positioning with "mt" on the no-rewind editions of the tape device (e.g. /dev/nst0). My backup script looks like #!/usr/bin/sh mt -f /dev/nst0 status echo "Archive T: starting at `date`" cd /dost tar cf /dev/nst0 * mt -f /dev/nst0 tell sleep 30 echo "Archive D: starting at `date`" cd /cygdrive/d tar cf /dev/nst0 * mt -f /dev/nst0 tell sleep 30 echo "Archive finished at `date`" mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl The sleeps may not be necessary but I have had problems in the pass with streaming tapes when I haven't include them. Hope that helps Don Sharp "Craveiro, Marco" wrote: > > Huh, before I starting getting flamed, may I just add that there is plenty > of documentation about ssh and cron on the mailing list, I just made the > mistake of using google instead of searching the mailing list directly. > Apologies. > > I am still searching for docs on backing up, so if you got info on that > please let me know. > > Thanks! > > marco > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craveiro, Marco > Sent: 26 April 2002 09:37 > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Cygrunsrv and backups > > Hello cygwiners! > > First many thanks for a great product, its getting greater with each > release. Contrary to some people on this list I have had no problems with > it. in fact, I have just finished installing it on a production server (nt > 4.0) and two workstations (w2k and XP) without any problems whatsoever; > setup.exe is brilliant. Also, huge thanks for the person that put in the > script that configures TeX, I was just about to start reading the howto's > :-)) > > Now, for my problem: I need to start backing up data using cygwin. I did a > search on the web but there are no obvious docs about it. Can someone point > me to: > > - docs (or posts) talking about setting up cron and ssh as a service, or > describing cygrunsrv with different services. I have found a brilliant howto > for > Inetd, is there something like that for these other services? > - docs (or posts) talking about backing up data using cygwin: how do you > rewind the tape, Append data, etc. > > If none or some of it is not possible please let me know. > > Thanks for your time! > > Marco > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/