[joeschram]

Thanks for the response MacTroll…

I’ve got a shell script working that lets me choose the tape and the path, but that’s about it. I spent about 6 hours making it and getting it to work yesterday, but it works (I’m emailing it to you now). I am not a trained programmer (a designer actually!), so it is very commented (for me to be able to sort stuff out) and probably does in 100+ lines what someone else could do in 25, but worked on a test volume yesterday night. The goal now it to tighten it up a bit and then try it out on a “real” production sharepoint.

I’m not looking to rip anyone’s hard work off or anything, but what I want is to see some other scripts that other people are using with OSX and BRU CLI. My dinky script just creates a logfile, makes a backup and then puts the tape back in its slot. I need a bit more than that, but I do not have the know how to implement much else, so I want to see some other scripts so I can pick them apart and learn from them. Perhaps ask some questions from the authors of those scripts as well. I understand that I can crontab this script for scheduling so that solves that problem, but I looking for more. Those scripts I mentioned on Tolis’ site are pretty tough for me to decipher. FYI, once I get this stuff figured out, I’m going to give it all away of course. I am asking others for help, so it is only fair and good in the spirit of open source to make my scripts them freely available on my personal .mac site for anyone else to use, and I’ll send ’em in to Tolis so that other Mac users at least have a place to start. Just thought you all should know that I’m looking to learn and share, not milch.

Joe

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