the 40-second sipb backup tutorial: log in to portnoy while doing the backup,so it doesn't do stupid reactivate tricks. yes, this should be fixable,but... log into machine foo as root, using encrypted rlogin. cd /usr/local/backup/bin. all the interesting stuff is here. ./all-backups will do a backup. answer the questions: use the defaults EXCEPT for the first question; say `full' instead of `daily'. ./show run display what's been done recently ./show tape display the current status of tapes. on portnoy, `mt -f /dev/rmt/1hn status' (etc) are possibly useful.