Automating CMS backups

[bobcat7978]

Hi, I have an Avaya CMS and currently have to manually backup the system through cmsadm backup every month. I know there's a way to do it with a shell script, but I can't seem to find anything anywhere. Can anyone put me in the right direction?

 

[nohuhu]

bobcat7978,

1) log into cms
2) do 'man cron' and read it thoroughly
3) do 'man 5 crontab' and read it even more thoroughly
4) do 'crontab -e' and define the timetable to run your command.

 

[bobcat7978]

I fully understand how to use cron. For cms, the backup is only done through the cmsadm menus, it's not an actual command I'm executing. If I knew the command, I'd have simply thrown together a shell script and added it to the cron. What I'm asking for is does anyone know the actual commands are being run by the backup feature in the cmsadm menu?

 

[multibus2]

/cms/install/bin/backup

 

[Frootbat]

although you could schedule the backup to start, how can you automate the responses? (very new to this sorry)

 

[bobcat7978]

Frootbat is right, here is what I see when I run the backup process. There has to be a way to let this happen overnight un-manned.

root 27650 27649 0 08:50:53 pts/14 0:01 sh -c backup
root 27721 27655 0 08:52:11 pts/14 0:00 /bin/ksh /cms/install/bin/backup
root 27655 27650 0 08:51:04 pts/14 0:00 /bin/ksh /cms/install/bin/backup
root 27723 27655 1 08:52:11 pts/14 0:01 tee /tmp/blog.tmp27655
root 27722 27721 17 08:52:11 pts/14 3:56 cpio -oVc -C 10240 -O /dev/rmt/0 -M Please remove the current tape, number it,