flexbackup-help — Support/help/usage

Re: [flexbackup-help] Exclude certain files

[Edwin H. <ed...@co...>]

[ Stefan Nicolin wrote: ]
> with flexbackup 1.2.0 is there a way to exclude certain files? So far I
> understand it, pruning works only or directorys.

True; the prune is meant for whole subtrees.

You could craft an exclude regular expression to hit only certain files. 
(the $exclude_expr array)

There isn't a place to add list of files to exclude one by one at the
moment.



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Re: [flexbackup-help] ejecting tape after backup

[Charlie B. <cha...@e-...>]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Chris Snow wrote:

> How can I eject the tape after the backup has finished.

mt [-f /dev/xxx] rewoffl

--
Charlie

[flexbackup-help] ejecting tape after backup

[Chris S. <sn...@ca...>]

How can I eject the tape after the backup has finished.

TIA.

Chris

[flexbackup-help] Exclude certain files

[Stefan N. <ro...@ni...>]

Hi,

with flexbackup 1.2.0 is there a way to exclude certain files? So far I understand it, pruning works only or directorys.


Thanks

Stefan

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[flexbackup-help] Selective Restore in flexbackup 0.9.9.7

[Jason L. <jle...@3d...>]

I am having trouble restoring a single file. I am probably not entering the
command correclty. I need to restore "display board.plt". My windows
directory path looks like
this-"\\server\fileshare\Designs\Companies\Goodwill Industries\display
board.plt" The instrusctions on the SME Server V5 selective restore from
tape page says -

Note, your ibays are actually under the directory tree location:
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/ibayname/files/
so to restore your files you must enter the entire path. For instance in the
examples below the ibay name is main and we are restoring to the
subdirectory data. In Windows explorer this would be viewed as
//server/main/data.

To restore a single file, enter as an example:
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/main/files/data/filename.doc

can someone help me decipher this!!

Jason LeBlanc
3D International Custom Sign & Design, Inc.
1801 Bertrand Dr.
Lafayette, LA 70506
ph.  337.233.7446
fax  337.237.0058
jle...@3d...

Re: [flexbackup-help] 2 flexbackup questions.

[Charlie B. <cha...@e-...>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, John Bennett wrote:

> I have inherited a DLT4700 and want to know if flexbackup supports tape
> changers?  I'd like to set up flexbackup to use a different slot per day
> for backups.  Is there a way to make flexbackup eject the current tape,
> then load the next tape and begin the backup.

I think you'd do that outside of flexbackup, in your cron script (or 
whatever you use for scheduling):

n=`which_tape_for_today`
mtx load $n && flexbackup ... && mt rewoffl

--
Charlie

[flexbackup-help] 2 flexbackup questions.

[John B. <ben...@th...>]

Hello,

I have just joined this list and did read some of the archives, but
didn't think my Q's were addressed.

I have inherited a DLT4700 and want to know if flexbackup supports tape
changers?  I'd like to set up flexbackup to use a different slot per day
for backups.  Is there a way to make flexbackup eject the current tape,
then load the next tape and begin the backup.  Second, does flexbackup
support spanning of tapes?  I think the answer to this is no, not
currently, but may be being worked on.

Thanks for your help,

JB

Re: [flexbackup-help] solaris 9 mt

[Ken R. <kr...@tl...>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Edwin Huffstutler wrote:

>
>[ Ken Rice wrote: ]
>> Is it possible to have flexbackup not attempt to set blksize?
>
>Try $mt{'setblk'} = "nop";  in the config file.

I had tried:
$mt{'setblk'} = 'nop';
so that could have been my issue

> 
>> We have a Sun DLT7000 and the OS is Solaris 9.
>
>So what is the right incantation to set blocksize for you? 
>I'd like to have it do the right thing.

There is no command for mt that allows you to set blocksize,
least none that I've found. This was on a Sun E5500,
running Solaris 9, and the Sun DLT7000.

You can specify it with ufsdump, though, although higher than 126
with a cartridge (or any tape I believe) isn't recommended. (?)

Sorry, been up for 24 hours now, as ufsdump was being used incorrectly in
a backup script, and the only fs written to tape was /!!
So I have been in panic mode.

I finally have ufsdump working now, and I'm more accustomed to Linux, 
which is what I wish the server was running.

I will try flexbackup on my Linux servers, though, when I return to the 
sanity of them. 

Frankly, I'd still like to try flexbackup, so I'll try the single quotes
either Sunday or Monday.

thank you!

Ken

Sorry, real tired.

Re: [flexbackup-help] solaris 9 mt

[Edwin H. <ed...@co...>]

[ Ken Rice wrote: ]
> Is it possible to have flexbackup not attempt to set blksize?

Try $mt{'setblk'} = "nop";  in the config file.
 
> We have a Sun DLT7000 and the OS is Solaris 9.

So what is the right incantation to set blocksize for you? 
I'd like to have it do the right thing.

 -Edwin



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[flexbackup-help] Block sizes and the TOC

[<bsa...@be...>]

I have just subscribed to this list for two reasons.

One is that I have just discovered FlexBackup and the other was to ask
for some help with a problem that I have managed to solve myself
between subscribing to the list and receiving the welcome message.
This is known as Sod's Law!

Just in case anyone has a similar experience:

I have set $type = 'afio'.

I tried a number of backups level 0 and level 1 starting each tape
with -newtape. I could not, however, get a TOC listing to work. Each
time I received a message - ERROR: No index on tape (or similar).

I had previously set $blksize = '0' and $mt_blksize = '0' and this
turned out to be the problem. Setting $mt_blksize = '10240' cured the
problem. I'm using a DAT drive for backups.

A jolly useful and full featured backup utility. I shall continue to
play.


Barry Samuels
http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk
The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

[flexbackup-help] solaris 9 mt

[Ken R. <kr...@tl...>]

Is it possible to have flexbackup not attempt to set blksize?

We have a Sun DLT7000 and the OS is Solaris 9.

Any attempts to:

flexbackup -test-tape-drive

returns this error:

flexbackup version 1.2.1 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------------------
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown (probably Bourne Shell)
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Trying "mt defblksize" instead of "mt setblk"
Error setting block size
Neither of these commands worked:
  mt -f /dev/rmt/0cn setblk 0
  mt -f /dev/rmt/0cn defblksize 0



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RE: [flexbackup-help] difficulty restoring single file

[Hurley, M. <MH...@la...>]

Thanks to both of you for the replies--it turns out you are both correct. I
had to move the tape to the proper block, then extract the file w/o the full
path (i.e., since the file was a backup of /var, I had to remove /var from
the path in restore.txt). 

After that, it turned out the file to be restored was too large to extract
to the tmp dir, so I moved the operation to a partition with more room. It
is chugging away as I write this now.

Thanks for your help!

-Mike Hurley





-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Brady [mailto:cha...@e-...]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:58 PM
To: Hurley, Michael
Cc: 'fle...@li...'
Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] difficulty restoring single file



On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Edwin Huffstutler wrote:

> > flexbackup -extract -files restore.txt
> > 
> > where restore.txt is a list of the file I need restored. I ran this as
root
> > in the /tmp/ directory. It chugged for quite a while, said "the
operation
> > was successful," but no file anywhere.
> 
> The requested files(s) were not in the archive most likely, or the path
was wrong.
> 
> An example of your directory spec and the file list would be good, but
check:
>  1. What's the root of the backed-up directory?
>  2. Make sure the file list in restore.txt is relative to #1
>  3. Check via "flexbackup -list" that the files are in the archive.

4. The tape was not correctly positioned before you ran the command, so 
that the wrong archive on the tape was searched.

--
Charlie

Re: [flexbackup-help] difficulty restoring single file

[Charlie B. <cha...@e-...>]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Edwin Huffstutler wrote:

> > flexbackup -extract -files restore.txt
> > 
> > where restore.txt is a list of the file I need restored. I ran this as root
> > in the /tmp/ directory. It chugged for quite a while, said "the operation
> > was successful," but no file anywhere.
> 
> The requested files(s) were not in the archive most likely, or the path was wrong.
> 
> An example of your directory spec and the file list would be good, but check:
>  1. What's the root of the backed-up directory?
>  2. Make sure the file list in restore.txt is relative to #1
>  3. Check via "flexbackup -list" that the files are in the archive.

4. The tape was not correctly positioned before you ran the command, so 
that the wrong archive on the tape was searched.

--
Charlie

Re: [flexbackup-help] difficulty restoring single file

[Edwin H. <ed...@co...>]

[ Hurley, Michael wrote: ]
> I have inherited a RH 7.3 system using flexbackup 0.9.8 to handle its
> backups. It has performed flawlessly up to now.
> 
> However, now I am trying to restore a clobbered file from the tape, and
> having a tough time of it. Here is what I have tried:
> 
> flexbackup -extract -files restore.txt
> 
> where restore.txt is a list of the file I need restored. I ran this as root
> in the /tmp/ directory. It chugged for quite a while, said "the operation
> was successful," but no file anywhere.

The requested files(s) were not in the archive most likely, or the path was wrong.

An example of your directory spec and the file list would be good, but check:
 1. What's the root of the backed-up directory?
 2. Make sure the file list in restore.txt is relative to #1
 3. Check via "flexbackup -list" that the files are in the archive.


Example: If you backed up the directory "/path/to/some/dir", and you want
to restore "/path/to/some/dir/dir2/dir3/filename", then restore.txt needs
to contain "dir2/dir3/filename".   


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[flexbackup-help] My backup system

[Scott C. <sc...@bn...>]

Hello,

This is not a request for help, or a complaint.  I have been
using flexbackup for almost two years now (liking it very much!)
and thought I would post a note describing how I use it, in the
hopes that it might be useful.

I have five Linux systems and three MSWindows2000 systems which
I backup using flexbackup.

Each of the five Linux systems has two hard disks: one is the
system/home disk (20Gb), the other is the backup image disk (40Gb).
Cron runs a perl script once per day which in turn runs flexbackup.
The perl script determines the level of backup (0-9) for the given
day of the month.  Flexbackup generates a compressed .afio file
in an 'images' directory on the backup disk.  So far the amount
of backup data has been such that I have almost two years worth
of backup images on these systems, with still room on the backup
disks to spare.  On only one system have I needed to go through
and start purging the oldest images to free up disk space.  (But,
I just today installed a 180Gb backup drive in that system,
replacing the older 40Gb one.)

I have a sixth Linux system which I use as a backup-backup system.
It has 500Gb of disk space.  Each night cron runs a perl script
which copies over the days backup images from each of the five
other Linux systems.  So then I have two copies of each days
backup images, on two separate systems in two different buildings.

The three MSWindows systems have their C: drives mounted onto the
backup-backup systems filesystem.  These drives then are backed up
each night along with the backup-backup system.

So far this system has worked very well.  I don't have to futz with
tapes (which I don't have much faith in).  All of the backup data
is 'on-line' for each system.  The only weak point at
the moment is that there is only one copy of the backup images for
the backup-backup system and the three MSWindows systems.  (I may
set up one of the five systems as a backup for the backup-backup.)
I have been able to restore files several times since I started
this system.  I have not yet had to do a full-restore (thankfully).

Comments welcome.  Perl scripts and further details available upon
request.

Cheers,

Scott

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[flexbackup-help] difficulty restoring single file

[Hurley, M. <MH...@la...>]

I have inherited a RH 7.3 system using flexbackup 0.9.8 to handle its
backups. It has performed flawlessly up to now.

However, now I am trying to restore a clobbered file from the tape, and
having a tough time of it. Here is what I have tried:

flexbackup -extract -files restore.txt

where restore.txt is a list of the file I need restored. I ran this as root
in the /tmp/ directory. It chugged for quite a while, said "the operation
was successful," but no file anywhere.



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[flexbackup-help] How do I send you patches for flexbackup

[Daniel C. <da...@co...>]

Hi all,

I'm willing to implement to pkgdelta feature for debian system. I would
like to know which version of the flexbackup file I should patch against
(is it the version 1.888 ?) and to who I should send the patch.

Cheers :)
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Re: [flexbackup-help] error trying to perform restore

[Charlie B. <cha...@e-...>]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Trey Richardson wrote:

> I recently backed up my system using flexbackup with the dump option. After
> re-installing my machine(freebsd 4.9 release) and installing flexbackup, I
> tried to do a restore from the tape with the following command(which
> normally works)
> 
> root# flexbackup -restore
> 
> That command gives the following error:
> 
> buffer not found in $PATH
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?

You should fix your PATH variable, install buffer or configure flexbackup 
not to use "buffer".

--
Charlie

[flexbackup-help] error trying to perform restore

[Trey R. <tr...@po...>]

I recently backed up my system using flexbackup with the dump option. After
re-installing my machine(freebsd 4.9 release) and installing flexbackup, I
tried to do a restore from the tape with the following command(which
normally works)

root# flexbackup -restore

That command gives the following error:

buffer not found in $PATH


Any suggestions? All my information is on that tape.

Trey

[flexbackup-help] flexbackup 1.2.1 - put all log in log-directory

[Robert L. <rob...@s1...>]

Hi!

First of all - nice program!

But I quickly got annoyed that it drops the logfiles (for
list/extract/etc.) all over the filesystem (that is always in the
current working directory).
Therefore I just applied some small changes, so that every log is put
into the specified logdirectory.
Please excuse my (maybe) dilletantic approach; I never used
perl before :-)

-- 
Cu,
Robert

[flexbackup-help] Installing FlexBackup

[Robert W. <rob...@ro...>]

Hi folks,
Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I am trying to install =
FlexBackup ver 1.2.1-1 which I downloaded the other day from the =
FlexBackup site as an RPM.  i am wanting to run this on a SuSE 8.2 box.  =
I  have the default version of Perl that comes with this but it is =
whining about not having verious components.  I have had a look round =
the Perl site and all there is to download is the sourcefiels or =
ActviePerl.

What i'm basically asking is what version of Perl does FlexBackup =
1.2.1-1 require?

Thanks in advance,

Rob,

Re: [flexbackup-help] Pruning remote machines

[Rhesa R. <lis...@rh...>]

Well, I look stupid now, but I figured it out by myself...

> Hi,
> 
> However, this doesn't seem to work:
> 
>     $set{'ns-intern'} = "10.0.0.50:/home/rhesa";
> with
>     $prune{'10.0.0.50/home'} = 'rhesa/mprime';
> 

Use the complete directory as specified in the set:

     $prune{'10.0.0.50/home/rhesa'} = 'mprime';

Wasn't completely obvious from the FAQ I must say.

[flexbackup-help] Pruning remote machines

[Rhesa R. <lis...@rh...>]

Hi,

I've been using flexbackup for a couple of months now, and I seem to 
have a problem using the pruning system.
It works as I expected on the local machine, where I have a set:

	$set{'homes'} = "/home";

and a prune entry:

	$prune{'/home'} = "rhesa/mprime";

However, this doesn't seem to work:

	$set{'ns-intern'} = "10.0.0.50:/home/rhesa";
with
	$prune{'10.0.0.50/home'} = 'rhesa/mprime';

How should I write that prune entry?

Thanks!

Rhesa Rozendaal

[flexbackup-help] Test restore

[Terry <te...@mr...>]

Hi i wish to restore certain files to a different position i just tried 
tape# flexbackup -extract -flist /home/terry/filelist /home/terry/flextest
flist contains the full path of the files i wanted to restore eg  
/40gb/under10gb/IMPORTANT/testrestore.doc
and /home/terry/flextest does exist

[flexbackup-help] could you help me ? can't get flexbackup to work

[Frank H. <fr...@ch...>]

hello i can't get flexbackup to work on my freebsd 4.8 system

below are outputs of manual and flexbackup -test-tape-drive and attached is
my current flexbackup.conf

i don't know what i set wrong in the config file orsomething
hopefuly u could point me in the right direction
did the manual backup with only the difference i used
mt -f /dev/sa0 blo 32768  instead of
mt -f /dev/sa0 setblk 32768  <wich gave this error

UnixServ# mt -f /dev/sa0 setblk 32768
mt: setblk: unknown command
UnixServ#

UnixServ#
UnixServ# find /etc/isdn -print | afio -o -z -v -b 32k - | dd ibs=32k
obs=32k of=/dev/sa0
etc/isdn -- okay
etc/isdn/answer -- okay
etc/isdn/isdntel.sh -- okay
etc/isdn/record -- okay
etc/isdn/tell -- okay
etc/isdn/tell-record -- okay
etc/isdn/unknown_incoming -- okay
etc/isdn/holidays.D -- okay
etc/isdn/isdnd.rates.A -- okay
etc/isdn/isdnd.rates.D -- okay
etc/isdn/isdnd.rates.F -- okay
etc/isdn/isdnd.rates.L -- okay
etc/isdn/isdnd.rates.UK.BT -- okay
etc/isdn/isdnd.rc.sample -- okay
etc/isdn/isdntel.alias.sample -- okay
afio: 64k+0 bytes written in 0 seconds. The operation was successful.
2+0 records in
2+0 records out
65536 bytes transferred in 0.019831 secs (3304735 bytes/sec)

UnixServ# mt -f /dev/sa0 status
Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
Current:  0x25:DDS-3           32768 bytes    97000    DCLZ
---------available modes---------
0:        0x25:DDS-3           32768 bytes    97000    DCLZ
1:        0x25:DDS-3           32768 bytes    97000    DCLZ
2:        0x25:DDS-3           32768 bytes    97000    DCLZ
3:        0x25:DDS-3           32768 bytes    97000    DCLZ
---------------------------------
Current Driver State: at rest.
---------------------------------
File Number: 0  Record Number: 0        Residual Count 0
UnixServ#

UnixServ# mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind
UnixServ#


UnixServ# dd ibs=32k obs=32k if=/dev/sa0 | afio -t -z -v -b 32k -
drwx------  1 root     wheel             Dec  2 22:30:27 2003 etc/isdn
-rwx------  1 root     wheel        1763 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/answer
-rwx------  1 root     wheel        1811 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/isdntel.s
h
-rwx------  1 root     wheel        1860 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/record
-rwx------  1 root     wheel        1640 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003 etc/isdn/tell
-rwx------  1 root     wheel        1714 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/tell-reco
rd
-rwx------  1 root     wheel        1921 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/unknown_i
ncoming
-rw-------  1 root     wheel        1386 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/holidays.
D
-rw-------  1 root     wheel        1487 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/isdnd.rat
es.A
-rw-------  1 root     wheel        2670 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/isdnd.rat
es.D
-rw-------  1 root     wheel        6711 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/isdnd.rat
es.F
-rw-------  1 root     wheel        1920 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/isdnd.rat
es.L
-rw-------  1 root     wheel        2811 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/isdnd.rat
es.UK.BT
-rw-------  1 root     wheel       13818 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/isdnd.rc.
sample
-rw-------  1 root     wheel         667 Apr  3 10:55:41 2003
etc/isdn/isdntel.a
lias.sample
afio: 42k+714 bytes read in 0 seconds. The operation was successful.
2+0 records in
2+0 records out
65536 bytes transferred in 0.044576 secs (1470207 bytes/sec)
UnixServ#








UnixServ# flexbackup -test-tape-drive

flexbackup version 1.2.1 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------------------
| Checking 'buffer' on this machine... Ok
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown (probably Bourne Shell)
|------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sa0: old model was 1 filemark at EOT
/dev/sa0: new model  is 1 filemark at EOT
| Testing will *erase* the tape currently in the drive!
| Hit CTRL-C to abort within 10 seconds...
|------------------------------------------------------------
| If for some reason this program does not exit within a few minutes,
| Hit CTRL-C, and try adjusting $blksize, $pad_blocks, or $mt_blksize.
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Rewinding & erasing tape...
|------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sa0: hardware block location 0

Writing test file #1
Kilobytes Out 192
/dev/sa0: hardware block location 0
Writing test file #2
Kilobytes Out 64
/dev/sa0: hardware block location 0
Writing test file #3
Kilobytes Out 192
/dev/sa0: hardware block location 0

Rewinding...
/dev/sa0: hardware block location 0

Reading test file #1
Kilobytes Out 192
/dev/sa0: hardware block location 0
Reading test file #2
Kilobytes Out 0
/dev/sa0: hardware block location 0
Reading test file #3
Kilobytes Out 192
/dev/sa0: hardware block location 0

Comparing...
Files /etc/flexbackup.conf and /tmp/test2.729 differ

FAILURE! Problem with tape driver or parameters.  Please see the FAQ
or try changing the $blksize, $pad_blocks, or $mt_blksize settings.


additional info

sa0 at adv0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
sa0: <HP C1537A L708> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)
(sa0:adv0:0:6:0): Invalid request.  Fixed block device requests must be a
multiple of 65536 bytes
(sa0:adv0:0:6:0): Invalid request.  Fixed block device requests must be a
multiple of 65536 bytes
(sa0:adv0:0:6:0): Invalid request.  Fixed block device requests must be a
multiple of 65536 bytes
(sa0:adv0:0:6:0): Invalid request.  Fixed block device requests must be a
multiple of 65536 bytes
UnixServ#

frank