Re: star quitting when changing tapes

jon fritsch <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have used star for about a year to backup about 50
> gigs of tape (4 tapes).  I am not an advanced user by
> any means.  Basically, I draw a full backup once a
> month and then have changes backed up each night.
>
> This was working fine for about a year.  Suddenly, I
> began having problems with multivolume spans.  A full
> dump would make it through an entire tape, prompt me
> to change it, and then when I did and hit return, the
> terminal window it was running in would vaporize and
> the backup would end there.  I could make nightly
> backups though (don't require entire tapes).  I can
> also see what is on a single tape.  

This is most likely caused by  a jobcontrol/tty-handling
bug in your shell.

Don't run star in the backgpround in case you have no tape
robot.

Jörg

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