Re: [Dump-users] Verify with -Mf stalls asking for next tape

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Le mardi 11 mars 2008 à 15:24 -0700, Kenneth Porter a écrit :
> I'm doing a multi-file dump (-B 1000000 -Mf) to an external USB drive. I 
> then do a verify (restore -C) to check the backup. My last verify stopped 
> with this prompt:
> 
> You have read volumes: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
> Specify next volume # (none if no more volumes): 7
> resync restore, skipped 230 blocks
> 
> Normally I run this from a script at midnight Saturday, so the prompt fails 
> the backup with no input. 

Do you mean that you get prompted for the next volume number each
night ?

> Here I ran the verify by hand from a shell window 
> and was able to let it continue by entering the next file number.
> 
> It would be nice if the operation would continue without prompting in this 
> situation, reading until no more files were available.

Well, it is supposed to work this way when -M is used...

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Stelian Pop <st...@po...>