tar & CGI

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?

Any suggestions are accepted.

Thanks,
Luca

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Re: tar & CGI

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/

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Scott

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