Hey... Could really use some help with this situation.

I have a backup schedule running a full backup everyday. I'm using webmin to manage these backup now. The problem is when the dump command sends a prompt asking if we want to rewrite the tape, Webmin does not display this prompt and we end up having to terminate the backup -> erase the tape(which takes a long time) and then run the backup again.

I was wondering if there is a technique that could be used to pass "Yes" as a parameter to the dump command, much like in windows? or if there is a more efficient way of getting this done, i would be very open to this

You can use the yes to pipe a 'y' response to the standard input of another command, eg

Thanks a lot! that did the trick.