Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPc tape config

[Stian J. <li...@jo...>]

ma., 12.01.2009 kl. 13.46 +0100, skrev Sil:
> Hi,
> I need to configure a tape drive to archive my backups.
> I found documentation here : 
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#configuring_an_archive_host
> But I must configure this size block option to tar (-b 10) in :

I did it by patching the BackupPC_archiveHost script like this:

--- BackupPC_archiveHost	2008-10-17 21:39:06.000000000 +0200
+++ BackupPC_archiveHost2	2009-01-13 21:46:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
     #
     # Output file is a device or a regular file, so don't use split
     #
-    $cmd  .= ">> $outLoc";
+    $cmd  .= "| buffer -B -o $outLoc";
     $mesg .= " to $outLoc";
 } else {
     mkpath($outLoc) if ( !-d $outLoc );

Obviously I had other needs than you, but I guess changing the buffer
command to "buffer -s 5120 -o $outLoc" would do the trick for you :) If
you find a better way, I'm very interested :)

Regards,
Stian