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RE: [flexbackup-help] remote backup

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

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Deon Grobler wrote:

> Hi Charline

Or Charlie, perhaps. 

[I notice that you insist on top-posting. I consider that laziness at the
expense of the many people you hope will help you. Please rethink. See 
.sig.]

> FreeBSD 5.1 already has that built in.

But clearly it is complaining:

find: invalid predicate `-E'

> It's no the OS, it's the find command. My guess is you just need to tell 
> flexbackup not to use -E. Modify this this block in /usr/bin/flexbackup 
> and see how you get on:
> 
> ...
>     # FreeBSD wants -E to enable extended regex
>     if ($::uname =~ /FreeBSD/) {
>         $cmd .= "$::path{find} -E . ";

Try this:

>         $cmd .= "$::path{find} . -E ";
>     } else {
>         $cmd .= "$::path{find} . ";
>     }
> ...

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RE: [flexbackup-help] remote backup

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

[Please learn not to top-post.]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Deon Grobler wrote:

> fine.  So yeah, its a Linux issue, any idea's what the problem could be?  Is
> there a way to get the OS to support the -E attrib?

It's no the OS, it's the find command. My guess is you just need to tell 
flexbackup not to use -E. Modify this this block in /usr/bin/flexbackup 
and see how you get on:

...
    # FreeBSD wants -E to enable extended regex
    if ($::uname =~ /FreeBSD/) {
        $cmd .= "$::path{find} -E . ";
    } else {
        $cmd .= "$::path{find} . ";
    }
...

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RE: [flexbackup-help] remote backup

[Deon G. <de...@im...>]

Hi John

You hit the nail on the head with that one.  I am using FreeBSD 5.1 and
tried to backup a Redhat Linux 8 box, and got that error.  I used the same
string to another FreeBSD 5.1 box on another remote site, and it worked
fine.  So yeah, its a Linux issue, any idea's what the problem could be?  Is
there a way to get the OS to support the -E attrib?

thanks again
Deon

-----Original Message-----
From: John Reynolds [mailto:jo...@re...]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 12:17 AM
To: de...@im...
Cc: John Reynolds; fle...@li...
Subject: RE: [flexbackup-help] remote backup



I didn't see this "invalid predicate -E" error in your previous post. What
system are you running this on? Your find(1) doesn't support -E?

-Jr

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Re: [flexbackup-help] remote backup

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

[ Deon Grobler wrote: ]
> bash-2.05b$ flexbackup -c /etc/flexbackup.conf -dir odin:/home/flex/test.txt
>
> [snip]
>
> ... so I am basically get a "No such file or directory" error, when the file
> definitely is there.  I have tried numerous combinations, if you could
> please help out, it would be appreciated.


Ummm...  point it at a directory, not a file.

(Can't be more explicit than "-dir" for the name of the flag, really...)


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RE: [flexbackup-help] remote backup

[Deon G. <de...@im...>]

Hi John

Lets say that I have tried both with directory and files, unfortunately I
have the example with the txt file, but I definitely ran

flexbackup -c /etc/flexbackup.conf -dir odin:/home/flex

...getting the same error

find: invalid predicate `-E'
level 0 odin:/home/flex Tue Dec 02 23:09:40 2003 tar+gzip from
asterix.impelsys.net
Total bytes written: 10240 (10kB, ?B/s)
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
146 bytes transferred in 0.302767 secs (482 bytes/sec)

ERROR: non-zero exit from:
ssh odin cd "/home/flex" && find -E . -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex
".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$ -print0 |
tar --create --null --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read --same-permissions -
-no-recursion --totals --label "level 0 odin:/home/flex Tue Dec 02 23:09:40
2003 tar+gzip from asterix.impelsys.net" --verbose --sparse -b 20 --file - |
gzip -4; x=(${PIPESTATUS[@]}); i=0; while [ $i -lt ${#x[@]} ]; do [
${x[$i]} -eq 0 ] || exit ${x[$i]}; i=$(($i+1)); done


thanks for all your help
Deon

-----Original Message-----
From: John Reynolds [mailto:jo...@re...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 11:01 PM
To: de...@im...
Cc: fle...@li...
Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] remote backup



> ssh odin cd "/home/flex/test.txt" && find -E . -depth -xdev ! -type s
> ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$ -print0 |
>
tar --create --null --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read --same-permissions -
> -no-recursion --totals --label "level 0 odin:/home/flex/test.txt Tue Dec
02

Uhm ... stupid question, but is /home/flex/test.txt a *FILE* or a
*DIRECTORY*?
-dir means directory. If you truly have a directory that ends in ".txt" then
.. well, whatever, but you have another problem. But, if this is a file,
then
you need to say

  -dir odin:/home/flex

in order to backup the entire directory. To my knowledge flexbackup isn't
setup
to just backup single files. Edwin might correct me here, but I think this
is
your problem.

-Jr

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Re: [flexbackup-help] What exactly is the "-wday" switch for?

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

[ Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote: ]
> Please add to the FAQ why "0 3 1-7 * 7 flexbackup -set all" doesn't
> do the expected thing.

I will.

(Fixed the flexbackup.1 manpage cut-n-paste error too.)


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[flexbackup-help] remote backup

[Deon G. <de...@im...>]

Hi there, hope you can help

I am remotely backingup a server via ssh, and I have already setup the
ssh-keys  ... but am getting this error:

bash-2.05b$ flexbackup -c /etc/flexbackup.conf -dir odin:/home/flex/test.txt

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

 $buffer not found in config: default=false
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown (probably Bourne Shell)
| Checking shell on odin... bash2
| Checking for required programs on host odin... Ok
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 0 backup of odin:/home/flex/test.txt using tar
| Found directory index key 200312021004
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup of: odin:/home/flex/test.txt
| Date of this level 0 backup: Tue Dec 02 21:37:57 2003
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------------------
| /tmp/collectexit.2418.sh ssh odin 'cd "/home/flex/test.txt" && find -E .
|   -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$
|   -print0 | tar --create --null --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read
|   --same-permissions --no-recursion --totals --label "level 0
|   odin:/home/flex/test.txt Tue Dec 02 21:37:57 2003 tar+gzip from
|   asterix.impelsys.net" --verbose --sparse -b 20 --file - | gzip -4;
|   x=(${PIPESTATUS[@]}); i=0; while [ $i -lt ${#x[@]} ]; do [ ${x[$i]} -eq
|   0 ] || exit ${x[$i]}; i=$(($i+1)); done' | /tmp/collectexit.2418.sh dd
|   ibs=10k obs=10k conv=noerror
|   of="/var/backups/networkbackups/odin-home-flex-test.txt.0.200312022137.
|   tar.gz"
| [ ! -e /tmp/exitstatus.2418 ]
|------------------------------------------------------------
sh: line 1: cd: /home/flex/test.txt: No such file or directory
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.312442 secs (0 bytes/sec)

ERROR: non-zero exit from:
ssh odin cd "/home/flex/test.txt" && find -E . -depth -xdev ! -type s
! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$ -print0 |
tar --create --null --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read --same-permissions -
-no-recursion --totals --label "level 0 odin:/home/flex/test.txt Tue Dec 02
21:37:57 2003 tar+gzip from asterix.impelsys.net" --verbose --sparse -b
20 --file - | gzip -4; x=(${PIPESTATUS[@]}); i=0; while [ $i -lt ${#x[@]} ];
do [ ${x[$i]} -eq 0 ] || exit ${x[$i]}; i=$(($i+1)); done


ERROR: exiting
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Tue Dec 02 21:37:57 2003
| Backup end:   Tue Dec 02 21:37:57 2003
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Compressing log (odin-home-flex-test.txt.0.200312022137.gz)
| Linking odin-home-flex-test.txt.latest.gz ->
odin-home-flex-test.txt.0.200312022137.gz
|------------------------------------------------------------


... so I am basically get a "No such file or directory" error, when the file
definitely is there.  I have tried numerous combinations, if you could
please help out, it would be appreciated.

thanks
Deon

Re: [flexbackup-help] What exactly is the "-wday" switch for?

[Mathieu A. <ma...@ma...>]

+-le 03/12/2003 16:10 +0100, Thomas Arendsen Hein =E9crivait :
| On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:03:34PM +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> +-le 03/12/2003 15:38 +0100, Thomas Arendsen Hein =E9crivait :
|> | I've read the FAQ, but didn't find an answer why these two crontab
|> | entries should behave different:
|> |=20
|> | With -wday:
|> |  0 3 1-7 * * flexbackup -wday 7 -set all ....
|>=20
|> That will do every Sunday between 1 and 7
|>=20
|> | Without -wday:
|> |  0 3 1-7 * 7 flexbackup -set all ....
|>=20
|> This will do every Sunday and every day from 1 to 7.
|>=20
|> So, it's not the same thing :)
|=20
| Ah, that answers my question. Knowing this I took another look in
| the crontab.5 man page:
|        Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by
|        two fields -- day of month, and  day  of  week.   If  both
|        fields  are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command will be
|        run when either field matches the current time.
|=20
| Stupid cron :-/

That's your point of view ;)

--=20
Mathieu Arnold

Re: [flexbackup-help] What exactly is the "-wday" switch for?

[Thomas A. H. <th...@in...>]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:03:34PM +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +-le 03/12/2003 15:38 +0100, Thomas Arendsen Hein écrivait :
> | I've read the FAQ, but didn't find an answer why these two crontab
> | entries should behave different:
> | 
> | With -wday:
> |  0 3 1-7 * * flexbackup -wday 7 -set all ....
> 
> That will do every Sunday between 1 and 7
> 
> | Without -wday:
> |  0 3 1-7 * 7 flexbackup -set all ....
> 
> This will do every Sunday and every day from 1 to 7.
> 
> So, it's not the same thing :)

Ah, that answers my question. Knowing this I took another look in
the crontab.5 man page:
       Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by
       two fields -- day of month, and  day  of  week.   If  both
       fields  are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command will be
       run when either field matches the current time.

Stupid cron :-/

Please add to the FAQ why "0 3 1-7 * 7 flexbackup -set all" doesn't
do the expected thing.

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Re: [flexbackup-help] What exactly is the "-wday" switch for?

[Mathieu A. <ma...@ma...>]

+-le 03/12/2003 16:03 +0100, Mathieu Arnold =E9crivait :
|=20
|=20
| +-le 03/12/2003 15:38 +0100, Thomas Arendsen Hein =E9crivait :
|| Hi!
||=20
|| I've read the FAQ, but didn't find an answer why these two crontab
|| entries should behave different:
||=20
|| With -wday:
||  0 3 1-7 * * flexbackup -wday 7 -set all ....
|=20
| That will do every Sunday between 1 and 7
|=20
|| Without -wday:
||  0 3 1-7 * 7 flexbackup -set all ....
|=20
| This will do every Sunday and every day from 1 to 7.
|=20
| So, it's not the same thing :)

to add a bit of truth, here is an abstract of my crontab(5) :

Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields --
day of month, and day of week.  If both fields are restricted (ie, aren't
*), the command will be run when either field matches the current time. For
example, ``30 4 1,15 * 5'' would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on
the 1st and 15th of each month, plus every Friday.

--=20
Mathieu Arnold

Re: [flexbackup-help] What exactly is the "-wday" switch for?

[Mathieu A. <ma...@ma...>]

+-le 03/12/2003 15:38 +0100, Thomas Arendsen Hein =E9crivait :
| Hi!
|=20
| I've read the FAQ, but didn't find an answer why these two crontab
| entries should behave different:
|=20
| With -wday:
|  0 3 1-7 * * flexbackup -wday 7 -set all ....

That will do every Sunday between 1 and 7

| Without -wday:
|  0 3 1-7 * 7 flexbackup -set all ....

This will do every Sunday and every day from 1 to 7.

So, it's not the same thing :)

--=20
Mathieu Arnold

Re: [flexbackup-help] What exactly is the "-wday" switch for?

[Simon M. <sim...@ch...>]

> Hi!
>
> I've read the FAQ, but didn't find an answer why these two crontab
> entries should behave different:
>
> With -wday:
>  0 3 1-7 * * flexbackup -wday 7 -set all ....
>
> Without -wday:
>  0 3 1-7 * 7 flexbackup -set all ....

I think they are not different, but you can do more difficult things like
a backup every first friday of a month. That's something not possible wit=
h
crond alone. I had the same question but found the answer somewhere in th=
e
FAQ or a readme.

>
> Besides this, the man page flexbackup.1 of version 1.2.1 contains a
> wrong description for -wday, I'll file a bug about it.

True, but IIRC the readme is correct.

>
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[flexbackup-help] What exactly is the "-wday" switch for?

[Thomas A. H. <th...@in...>]

Hi!

I've read the FAQ, but didn't find an answer why these two crontab
entries should behave different:

With -wday:
 0 3 1-7 * * flexbackup -wday 7 -set all ....

Without -wday:
 0 3 1-7 * 7 flexbackup -set all ....

Besides this, the man page flexbackup.1 of version 1.2.1 contains a
wrong description for -wday, I'll file a bug about it.

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Re: [flexbackup-help] $erase_tape_set_level_zero

[Charlie B. <cha...@mi...>]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Paul Bearne wrote:

> Hi am sure this is an old error

It is, and you'll find the answer in the e-smith.org forums, not here.

Bottom line, apply all updates and follow the instructions in the README 
file where you found them.

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[flexbackup-help] $erase_tape_set_level_zero

[Paul B. <pa...@be...>]

Hi am sure this is an old error

I am using an e-smith server which I upgraded from 5.6 to 6 at which point
the backup broke with the following error

#########################################################

flexbackup version 1.1.7 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)

/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK



Errors:

$erase_tape_set_level_zero not defined

Backup terminated: backup failed - status: 256



###########################################################



so it is properly an old config file

can anybody point me in the right direction



Paul Bearne

Re: [flexbackup-help] multiple directories, broken pipe

[Simon M. <sim...@ch...>]

> I'm running afio v2.4.7 dated 9th October 2001. Is there a homepage
> anywhere I can check whether my version is likely to have the large fil=
e
> support? (I'm on freebsd 4.7).

You need http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~k.holtman/afio-2.4.7.9beta4.tg=
z

Simon

>
> Thanks!
> Kel.
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Re: [flexbackup-help] multiple directories, broken pipe

[Kel G. <ke...@or...>]

Simon Matter said:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm backing up three directores as part of a level 0 backup, but getting
>> a
>> broken pipe error from afio during the backup.
>>
>> $filesystems[0] = '/usr/local/www /usr/local/documents /usr/home';
>>
>> If I alter the $filesystems var to have only one directory, backup will
>> succeed for each directory individually.
>>
>> It's only when the backup for all three directories runs that the error
>> occurs. The interesting thing is the buffer offset is huge (offset
>> 1946632463m):
>>
>> buffer (writer): write of data failed: Unknown error: 0
>> bytes to write=10240, bytes written=0, total written    4462380K
>> afio: "-" [offset 1946632463m+802k+0]: Fatal error:
>> afio: "-": Broken pipe
>
> Do you have LARGEFILE support in your afio? I'm using afio-2.4.7.9beta4.
>
> Simon
>
>>
>> ERROR from backup, exiting
>> offending command(s):
>> /usr/local/bin/buffer -m 10m -s 10k -u 100 -t -p 75 -B -o /dev/nrsa0
>> /usr/local/bin/afio -o -z -v -b 10k -
>> find . -xdev -depth ! -regex .*/[Cc]ache/.* ! -regex .*~$ -print
>>
>>
>> I've checked for symbolic links between the directories that I'm backup
>> up, just in case I've got a looping find; but cannot find any.
>>
>> I've also turned off samba during backups, just in case.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced anything similar? I'm starting to run out of
>> idea!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kel.
>>
>>
>> --

I'm running afio v2.4.7 dated 9th October 2001. Is there a homepage
anywhere I can check whether my version is likely to have the large file
support? (I'm on freebsd 4.7).

Thanks!
Kel.

Re: [flexbackup-help] multiple directories, broken pipe

[Simon M. <sim...@ch...>]

> Hello,
>
> I'm backing up three directores as part of a level 0 backup, but gettin=
g a
> broken pipe error from afio during the backup.
>
> $filesystems[0] =3D '/usr/local/www /usr/local/documents /usr/home';
>
> If I alter the $filesystems var to have only one directory, backup will
> succeed for each directory individually.
>
> It's only when the backup for all three directories runs that the error
> occurs. The interesting thing is the buffer offset is huge (offset
> 1946632463m):
>
> buffer (writer): write of data failed: Unknown error: 0
> bytes to write=3D10240, bytes written=3D0, total written    4462380K
> afio: "-" [offset 1946632463m+802k+0]: Fatal error:
> afio: "-": Broken pipe

Do you have LARGEFILE support in your afio? I'm using afio-2.4.7.9beta4.

Simon

>
> ERROR from backup, exiting
> offending command(s):
> /usr/local/bin/buffer -m 10m -s 10k -u 100 -t -p 75 -B -o /dev/nrsa0
> /usr/local/bin/afio -o -z -v -b 10k -
> find . -xdev -depth ! -regex .*/[Cc]ache/.* ! -regex .*~$ -print
>
>
> I've checked for symbolic links between the directories that I'm backup
> up, just in case I've got a looping find; but cannot find any.
>
> I've also turned off samba during backups, just in case.
>
> Has anyone experienced anything similar? I'm starting to run out of ide=
a!
>
> Cheers,
> Kel.
>
>
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[flexbackup-help] multiple directories, broken pipe

[Kel G. <ke...@or...>]

Hello,

I'm backing up three directores as part of a level 0 backup, but getting a
broken pipe error from afio during the backup.

$filesystems[0] = '/usr/local/www /usr/local/documents /usr/home';

If I alter the $filesystems var to have only one directory, backup will
succeed for each directory individually.

It's only when the backup for all three directories runs that the error
occurs. The interesting thing is the buffer offset is huge (offset
1946632463m):

buffer (writer): write of data failed: Unknown error: 0
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=0, total written    4462380K
afio: "-" [offset 1946632463m+802k+0]: Fatal error:
afio: "-": Broken pipe

ERROR from backup, exiting
offending command(s):
/usr/local/bin/buffer -m 10m -s 10k -u 100 -t -p 75 -B -o /dev/nrsa0
/usr/local/bin/afio -o -z -v -b 10k -
find . -xdev -depth ! -regex .*/[Cc]ache/.* ! -regex .*~$ -print


I've checked for symbolic links between the directories that I'm backup
up, just in case I've got a looping find; but cannot find any.

I've also turned off samba during backups, just in case.

Has anyone experienced anything similar? I'm starting to run out of idea!

Cheers,
Kel.


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Re-4: [flexbackup-help] Some FlexBackup Questions

[<cl...@vv...>]

Hi,

First: Yes you are right, I'm using FreeBSD. Sorry i wanted to put it at the bottom of the Mail, but i forgot it ... my fault ;o)

> First make sure you aren't having some sort of weird tape problems with 
> your blocksize, etc. I believe (from the above) that you're on a FreeBSD 
> machine and with some tape drives you need to set the blocksize to something 
> other than the default or you can't read the bloody thing after you write 
> it. I set my blocksize to "54" (54k, but leave the k off in the config 
> file).

I've tried to set it to 16k. We have here an Novell Server, and his Administrator has some same Problems. With 16k it worked for him (he has the 
same Tape Drive Type like me).

> Try to do the restore by itself without the -onefile option. I can't for 
> the life of me remember off hand if the -onefile takes the full-path name of 
> the file (as it was when you backed it up) or the relative pathname. I think 
> it's the relative path name, but honestly, I've never used this feature
> just extracted whole archives. Remember if you backup /htdocs, flexbackup 
> will cd there first and then archive from thre, so the filenames stored in 
> the archive are relative path names. maybe that's your problem.

I know where my Problem was. flexbackup --help has one following line:
> flexbackup [...] -num <n>       : read file number n from tape; if not given
>                                   uses current tape position
The Tape was it's end, and so File 1 (/htdocs) could not be found. Now it works fine for me .. at least file for file. ;o)
So that works fine for me:
testserv# flexbackup -export -onefile test.htm -num 1

The File is found .. but my Problem is that he stays there for hours. He's there until 4 hours now ;o). What could be the Problem?

Complete Restore of Files works great for me.

Restoring a complete Backup seems not to be efficent for me in some points. And because i want to know how it works with only one File I tried this ;o)
Complete Backups i'll try tomorrow ;o)

> Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE.           FreeBSD: The Power to  Serve!
> "Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses."

You are getting sympathetic to me ;o) I'm using it not such a long time, but i love it ;o)

Nice Greetings ... and as I said before: Very nice Work, and Great thanks for your Help!

clynx

P.S.: You have one user more ;o) Btw: if Edwin could implement this Tape checking Feature, i could dance around the christmas tree ;o)

Re-4: [flexbackup-help] Some FlexBackup Questions

[<t....@vv...>]

Hi,

First: Yes you are right, I'm using FreeBSD. Sorry i wanted to put it at the bottom of the Mail, but i forgot it ... my fault ;o)

> First make sure you aren't having some sort of weird tape problems with 
> your blocksize, etc. I believe (from the above) that you're on a FreeBSD 
> machine and with some tape drives you need to set the blocksize to something 
> other than the default or you can't read the bloody thing after you write 
> it. I set my blocksize to "54" (54k, but leave the k off in the config 
> file).

I've tried to set it to 16k. We have here an Novell Server, and his Administrator has some same Problems. With 16k it worked for him (he has the 
same Tape Drive Type like me).

> Try to do the restore by itself without the -onefile option. I can't for 
> the life of me remember off hand if the -onefile takes the full-path name of 
> the file (as it was when you backed it up) or the relative pathname. I think 
> it's the relative path name, but honestly, I've never used this feature
> just extracted whole archives. Remember if you backup /htdocs, flexbackup 
> will cd there first and then archive from thre, so the filenames stored in 
> the archive are relative path names. maybe that's your problem.

I know where my Problem was. flexbackup --help has one following line:
> flexbackup [...] -num <n>       : read file number n from tape; if not given
>                                   uses current tape position
The Tape was it's end, and so File 1 (/htdocs) could not be found. Now it works fine for me .. at least file for file. ;o)
So that works fine for me:
testserv# flexbackup -export -onefile test.htm -num 1

The File is found .. but my Problem is that he stays there for hours. He's there until 4 hours now ;o). What could be the Problem?

Complete Restore of Files works great for me.

Restoring a complete Backup seems not to be efficent for me in some points. And because i want to know how it works with only one File I tried this ;o)
Complete Backups i'll try tomorrow ;o)

> Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE.           FreeBSD: The Power to  Serve!
> "Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses."

You are getting sympathetic to me ;o) I'm using it not such a long time, but i love it ;o)

Nice Greetings ... and as I said before: Very nice Work, and Great thanks for your Help!

clynx

P.S.: You have one user more ;o) Btw: if Edwin could implement this Tape checking Feature, i could dance around the christmas tree ;o)

Re-2: [flexbackup-help] Some FlexBackup Questions

[<cl...@vv...>]

Hi,

it's me again ;o) I've tried it now, and need some help ;o)

Backup seems to work nice here. But there are some messages i don't understand:

| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown (probably Bourne Shell)
What's that? Ok. i see no error or something like that ... but i would like to know why it's there ;o)

/dev/nrsa0: old model was 1 filemark at EOT
/dev/nrsa0: new model  is 1 filemark at EOT
What this. When I get it right the sense is the same ;o)

The rest is more or less clear to me ... 

Then I tried Listings ... they work really nice for me .. you did good work ;o)

And then .. Restore ... the special Moment ;o)

I've here two directorys tested. set is /htdocs /mysql. Here's the TOC:

File  Contents    (tape index 200311201120)
---------------------------------------------
0    <tape index key>
1    level 0 /htdocs Thu Nov 20 11:20:15 2003 tar+gzip from testServ.localnet
2    level 0 /mysql Thu Nov 20 11:41:46 2003 tar+gzip from testServ.localnet

I tried to restore one file with
testServ# flexbackup -extract -onefile /htdocs/test.htm

The File exists, in real, and on Backup .. at least the Backup said this ;o)
Then he search for a good while and told me that the File does not exists.
What did I wrong? I think it could be that I have to give the File Number .. but i don't know how ...

Please Help! ;o)

Thx by now for your Help ... FlexBackup is really really cool .. and i the Tape check will come in the Future, it seems to be the best ;o)

Great Work!

Nice Greetings

clynx

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] Some FlexBackup Questions (20-Nov-2003 5:38)
From:    ed...@co...
To:      cl...@vv...

> 
> [ cl...@vv... wrote: ]
> > First One: Is it possible to define a Tapename on which the Backup Data
> > should go. If the wrong Backup is inside the TapeDrive, no backup is
> > made, and I recive an Error via E-Mail.
> 
> Nope, no such facility exists now.  
> 
> It does use a numeric "index key" for each tape, so this kind of thing
> could be added, perhaps like:
>  
>     run a command such as "flexbackup -dir xxxxxxxx -tapekey 12345678"
>     when about to do a a backup
>          get tape index off the drive (code already does this)
>          compare to desired key
>          if not equal, exit
>   
> > Second One: Is it possible to throw out the Tape when backup finished
> > successfull? One small think, but nice Feature ;o)
> 
> Not all tapes drives support that operation.
> 
> Someone sent a simple suggestion the other day though 
> (flexbackup <whatever> && mt offline)
> 
> > Third One:
> > I have here 12 Tapes. 6 per Week. Every Day, excluding Sunday, a Full
> > Backup should be done, overwriting the Tape Content that exists on the
> > Tape (if the right Tape is insight, see point 2). When Week ends the
> > Tapes are switched. The Tapes from the 'last' week are placed in an
> > secret Place, and the other 6 Tapes are written. When next week is gone,
> > the Tape from the Secret Place came back, and will be used for
> > Backups. (I hope you got me right ;o) Is it possible with FlexBackup?
> 
> I think that's just a methodology question.  Sure, you can arrange it
> however you want.  "flexbackup -level 0 -erase" will wipe the tape and do a
> full backup every day if you want it to.... swap the tapes as much as you
> like.  As mentioned above, there is no label-checking mechanism currently.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>  Edwin Huffstutler 
>  ed...@co...   GnuPG Key ID: AE782DC9
> 

Re-2: [flexbackup-help] Some FlexBackup Questions

[<cl...@vv...>]

> Nope, no such facility exists now.  
> 
> It does use a numeric "index key" for each tape, so this kind of thing
> could be added, perhaps like:
>  
>     run a command such as "flexbackup -dir xxxxxxxx -tapekey 12345678"
>     when about to do a a backup
>          get tape index off the drive (code already does this)
>          compare to desired key
>          if not equal, exit

What do you think how many time it will take to get it into it. Or, do you think it could be added in near future?

I think i'll go to try FlexBackup. Seems to be a greate software. Thanks for your help by now ;o)

Nice Greetings

clynx

[flexbackup-help] flexbackup 'unknown error' after 300mb..

[Kel G. <ke...@or...>]

Hello,

I've got a DDS-2 DAT drive (an HP1533A), with DCLZ hardware compression
turned on, which should allow me 4GB uncompressed / 8GB compressed.

Whenever I run a level 0 backup, flexbackup seems to exit after 300MB, the
error as follows:

buffer (writer): write of data failed: Unknown error: 0
bytes to write=32768, bytes written=0, total written     299648K
afio: "-" [offset 1946628398m+640k+0]: Fatal error:
afio: "-": Broken pipe

ERROR from backup, exiting
offending command(s):
/usr/local/bin/buffer -m 10m -s 32k -u 100 -t -p 75 -B -o /dev/nrsa0
/usr/local/bin/afio -o -z -v -b 32k -
find . -xdev -depth ! -regex .*/[Cc]ache/.* ! -regex .*~$ -print


I'm intrigued, as the offset is shown as 1946628398m+640k+0.
du -h shows approx 6.8GB of data being backed up. If this was a problem, I
would have thought the backup would choke at around 4/6GB, not 300MB.

Tapes are brand new, dds-2.

Any thoughts gratefully received.

Thanks,
Kel.


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Re: [flexbackup-help] flexbackup | something doesn't work

[Simon M. <sim...@ch...>]

> Hi,
>
> I tried to setup flexbackup cronjobs where I pipe the output to some ot=
her
> program. Unfortunately It doesn't work as I expected:
>
> [root@backup root]# flexbackup -set snapshots -incremental | sendalert
> backup
> /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK
>
> Did I miss something here?

Sorry for the noise, it's all my fault.

Simon

>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
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