From: "Scott Taylor" <scott@dctchambers.com>
To: fluca1978REMOVE_THIS_STRING@virgilio.it
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tar & CGI
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 07:08:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1630.192.168.99.70.1078153700.squirrel@dctchambers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403011002.31267.fluca1978@virgilio.it>
Luca Ferrari said:
> Hello,
> I'm developing a perl CGI as a front-end to tar. I'd like to use it as
> an interface for tape backups on my server, but I've got several
> questions that I hope someone can answer to:
> 1) how to give root permissions to my CGI, thus it can read all data
> it must backup?
> 2) since I'd like to use tar in multi volume mode (-M), how to catch
> within the CGI the end of a tape, so to require to the user a new tape
> and to restart tar on the new tape?
> 3) how to keep a trace of all data contained in each tape? In other
> words, how to save the output of tar depending on the tape number?
Perhaps you want to have a look at how that is all done in Webmin:
http://www.webmin.com/
--
Scott
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2004-03-01 9:02 tar & CGI Luca Ferrari
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