Configuration: Command Line Options

Jaz support

The vet system can be run directly on Jaz/Zip disks with the start up options.

vet -J

Copy the current vet system to a Jaz/Zip disk

vet -j

Run the vet system on the Jaz/Zip disk

The system will handle the mounting of the disk automatically, however, if two people are running on the same disk then you may have to un-mount the filesystem manually (man umount) depending on who exits first.

The Jaz/Zip disk should have been initially prepared with fdisk/divvy before hand - this only needs to be done once per disk.

If either an Edge or Tapeback backup is in progress then you may want to lock the Vet System to stop people changing the data while a backup is in place.

You can do this by added a line to one of the startup files (/etc/default/vet3000 ). as per:

If you need to access the vet system while this lock is in place, or the lock has not been removed correctly, you have three options:

• Running with vet -b will by-pass the lock file
• Running with vet -l the system till try to remove any lock files. Note: You may need to run this option as root or admin due to Unix access permissions.
• Remove either /tmp/tapeback.lck or /usr/lib/edge/lists/edge.progress depending on if you are using tapeback or edge. You should make sure that the backup has finished as a stale lock file may stop the following days backup from running.

Creating a Lock

If you are doing some work on the system e.g. End of Year/End of Month, you can apply a lock to stop others accessing it.

• vet -L will create a lock file to stop others accessing the system.
• In some cases you may want to force the system into single user mode, this can be done by vet -S