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Re: [flexbackup-help] problems with $device variable

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

[ Petr Voles wrote: ]
> 
> Errors:
>  $device must be set to a directory, a local device, or a remote device
> 
> the /dev/nst0 is sym-link to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/mtn

Strange.

I have $device set a symlink that points to the real one as well, that's
not uncommon.

The code chases the symlink and then just sees if the result is a char
device or not.

What does. "ls -l /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/mtn" show?


You can also stick a debug statement in after line 2133:

    2130     # Chase links
    2131     $realdev = $cfg::device;
    2132     while (-l $realdev) {
    2133         $realdev = readlink($realdev);
                  print "Chased link, result is $realdev\n";
    2134     }
    2135


After that there's an if statement that just checks for $realdevice being a
  - char device
  - block device
  - directory
  - remote tape (host:/dev/device)
Only if all those fail does it give that error. 



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[flexbackup-help] problems with $device variable

[Petr V. <pv...@bo...>]

Hi,

I tried to run flexbackup on one of our machine but did not get much far :-( 
The problem seems to be that if I set the variable $device to '/dev/nst0' it does not accept it and returns following error:

flexbackup version 1.0.1 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK


Errors:
 $device must be set to a directory, a local device, or a remote device

This happens even if I override the setting in flexbackup.conf by command line switch. 

I am almost positive that the device is working as I am using it for backup regularly and 'mt -f /dev/nst0 stastus' output is:

SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x26 (DDS-4 or QIC-4GB).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
 BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN

which indicates that the device is up and alive.
I am running Mandrake 9.0, 
mt-st v. 0.7
perl v5.8.0

the /dev/nst0 is sym-link to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/mtn

The tape is HP DAT40i connected to Adaptec 2930U.

As I am not a Perl expert I am not entirely sure what to look for. 
Any suggestions very welcome. 
Cheers,
Petr Voles

Re: [flexbackup-help] >2G for file system backups

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

[ Richard Houston wrote: ]
> I have a backup server that runs RH 6.2 and can not be updated due to
> hardware support issues on the scsi card. I am making tar.gz files and
> have to backup 8.5 gig of data each night which turns out to be 3.5 gigs
> compressed. This is off a remote server.
> 
> I was wondering if there is any way to split large backup files into
> smaller files on the fly with flexbackup. I currently use split to do
> the job with tar and gzip.
> 
> Any suggestions?


Ummm.. not really.  I thought 2.2 kernels didn't have large file support,
so you are probably stuck with "split" or something similar.

flexbackup could be taught to use split & multiple files when making
on-disk archives (and putting them back together again for reads) but I'm
not really that inclined to add it...

If you really can't update the machine, perhaps you could split the backup
into 2 or more subdirs that archive to <2GB (compressed)?


Maybe this link will help - down the page there is a blurb about RH 6.2 and
tweaking it for LFS support (it seems the kernel/glibc support were in 6.2
but older versions of bash and pam limit things to 32 bits...)

  http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html



 -Edwin


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[flexbackup-help] >2G for file system backups

[Richard H. <rho...@rl...>]

Hi there,

New to the list so I am sorry if this has been asked and answered.

I have a backup server that runs RH 6.2 and can not be updated due to
hardware support issues on the scsi card. I am making tar.gz files and
have to backup 8.5 gig of data each night which turns out to be 3.5 gigs
compressed. This is off a remote server.

I was wondering if there is any way to split large backup files into
smaller files on the fly with flexbackup. I currently use split to do
the job with tar and gzip.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Rich

Re: [flexbackup-help] Problem with extracting backups flexbackup-1.0.1

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

[ Dav...@cs... wrote: ]
> I have manged to install flexbackup successfully in the sense that  I can
> get archiving to work using tar.  However when I go to extract the backup I
> get the following error.
> 
> Errors:
>  Can't tie DB /var/lib/flexbackup/index: Permission denied
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

By chance did you run the backup as root but are running the extraction as
a normal user?

It doesn't actually *need* to tie to the db for extraction or listing (I
should fix it so it doesn't try, actually). 

Anyway, you can try this:

  flexbackup -d indexes=false -extract <file> 

(or set $indexes='false' in the config)


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Re: [flexbackup-help] Problem with extracting backups flexbackup-1.0.1

[John R. <jo...@re...>]

[ On Thursday, February 6, Dav...@cs... wrote: ]
> Hi all
> 
> flexbackup version 1.0.1 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
> /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK
> 
> Errors:
>  Can't tie DB /var/lib/flexbackup/index: Permission denied
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This error occurs on both cygwin and redhat 7.1.  I have tried giving
> permissions of 777 to the directories but still no joy.
> 
> Have I missed something? 
> 
> If you need more info please dont hesitate to ask.

Well, aside from the obvious questions, I can't think of anything that would
cause this:

 o are you restoring as root?
 o before you type the flexbackup command can you say

     file /var/lib/flexbackup/index

???

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[flexbackup-help] Problem with extracting backups flexbackup-1.0.1

[<Dav...@cs...>]

Hi all

I have manged to install flexbackup successfully in the sense that  I can
get archiving to work using tar.  However when I go to extract the backup I
get the following error.

---------------------------------------------------
$ flexbackup -extract home.0.200302061136.tar.gz

flexbackup version 1.0.1 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------------------
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown (probably Bourne Shell)
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Logging output to "flexbackup.extract.200302061136.log"
| Auto-set to type=tar compress=gzip

Errors:
 Can't tie DB /var/lib/flexbackup/index: Permission denied
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This error occurs on both cygwin and redhat 7.1.  I have tried giving
permissions of 777 to the directories but still no joy.

Have I missed something? 

If you need more info please dont hesitate to ask.

Kind regards

David

[flexbackup-help] 1.0pre6 and Files/Directories with spaces

[<for...@tx...>]

Howdy,

I am trying to backup directories and filenames that contain spaces
using 1.0pre6.  Unfortunately the "cd" commands complains about
too many arguments and flexbackup starts at the current directory.

I'm using FreeBSD 4.7 with a Sony AIT2 tape drive.

Any help would be appreciated....


Here's the output:

   [root@rossini root]# flexbackup -fs '/home/data/Work/RSS Web Page'

   flexbackup version 1.0pre6 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
   /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

   |------------------------------------------------------------
   | Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown (probably Bourne Shell)
   |------------------------------------------------------------
   | Doing level 0 backup of /home/data/Work/RSS Web Page using tar
   | Found index key 200302020041, next file is 1
   | Making sure tape is at end of data...
   |------------------------------------------------------------
   /dev/nrsa0: hardware block location 1
   |------------------------------------------------------------
   | File number 1, tape index 200302020041
   | Backup of: /home/data/Work/RSS Web Page
   | Date of this level 0 backup: Sun Feb 02 00:43:07 2003
   | Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
   |------------------------------------------------------------
   | /tmp/collectexit.26324.sh cd /home/data/Work/RSS Web Page &&
   |   /tmp/collectexit.26324.sh find . -xdev -depth ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*"
   |   ! -regex ".*~"$ -print0 | /tmp/collectexit.26324.sh tar --create --null
   |   --files-from=- --same-permissions --same-order --no-recursion --totals
   |   --label "level 0 /home/data/Work/RSS Web Page Sun Feb 02 00:43:07 2003
   |   tar from rossini.coserv.net" --verbose --sparse -b 20 --file - |
   |   /tmp/collectexit.26324.sh dd ibs=10k obs=10k conv=noerror,sync
   |   of=/dev/nrsa0
   | [ ! -e /tmp/exitstatus.26324 ]
   |------------------------------------------------------------
   cd: too many arguments
   level 0 /home/data/Work/RSS Web Page Sun Feb 02 00:43:07 2003 tar from rossini.coserv.net
   ./.ncftp/init_v3
   ./.ncftp/log
   ./.ncftp/prefs
   ./.ncftp/history
   ./.ncftp/firewall
   ./.ncftp/prefs_v3
   ./.ncftp/trace
   ./.ncftp/
   ./.bash_history
   ./.lsof_rossini
   ./.ssh/known_hosts
   ./.ssh/


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Re: [flexbackup-help] /dev/nst0: Input/output error

[Brian B. <bb...@my...>]

I changed tapes and have had two successful backups since my first 
attempt.  Looks like I grabbed a bad tape for my first test.  Thanks 
anyway for the help.  I learned more about flexbackup.

Cheers,
BB

Brian Barber
Ottawa, ON   CANADA
brian.barber at mysun.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Barber" <bb...@my...>
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2003 3:53 pm
Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] /dev/nst0: Input/output error

> Thanks for the direction.  I'll try the things you suggested.  
> BTW, the 
> following is the output of 'mt -f /dev/nst0 status':
> 
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
> Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x45 (QIC-3095-MC (TR-4)).
> Soft error count since last status=0
> General status bits on (41010000):
> BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
> 
> My drive is a Connor CTT8000-A (IDE drive that takes Travan TR-4 
> tapes.
> BB
> 
> Brian Barber
> Ottawa, ON   CANADA
> brian.barber at mysun.com
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Edwin Huffstutler <ed...@co...>
> Date: Saturday, January 25, 2003 10:36 am
> Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] /dev/nst0: Input/output error
> 
> > 
> > [ Brian Barber wrote: ]
> > > I'm a flexbackup amateur.  Below is the output of my nightly 
> > cron job 
> > > from last night.  Am I looking at a defective tape?
> > 
> > Not sure. 
> > 
> > I'd try the following:
> > 
> > - Set $buffer=false or give "-d buffer=false" on the commandline and
> >   just see how things operate with plain 'dd'.  You could also turn
> >   compression to false just to take one program out of the 
> > pipeline as you
> >   debug.
> > 
> > - Try changing your $blksize.  Depending on the tape drive and 
> > driver, it
> >   may not like 10.  Try 64 or 32?
> > 
> > - Switch the value of $mt_var_blksize.  This again depends on 
> the 
> > drive.
> > "mt -f /dev/nst0 status" can sometimes be useful; sometimes you 
> > can get
> > extended error info.
> > 
> > (You might also want to try out the latest 1.0pre version that I've
> > recently put out, after a few years of non-maintenance...  
> > Although your
> > problem seems to be just related to tape drive specifics, that 
> hasn't> really changed)
> > 
> > -Edwin
> > 
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Re: [flexbackup-help] Files missing in afio-archive

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

[ Markus Schaub wrote: ]
> I tried to backup a directory with flexbackup but some files didn't get
> backed up.

Fixed in 1.0pre6 which I just uploaded.

The first file in afio archives was being missed (although it didn't look
like it!)  

Was a side-effect of changing to null-terminated file lists & interaction
with the way we were doing afio volume headers...

  -Edwin


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[flexbackup-help] Files missing in afio-archive

[Markus S. <mai...@ma...>]

Hi!

I tried to backup a directory with flexbackup but some files didn't get
backed up.

The directory contains only two subdirs + three empty files a,b and c.
| ep092:/tmp# find testdir/
| testdir/
| testdir/test1
| testdir/test1/a
| testdir/test1/b
| testdir/test1/c
| testdir/test2

Now I trie to make a backup with type afio:
| ep092:/tmp# flexbackup -fs /tmp/testdir/
| ...
| CONTROL_FILE/flexbackup.volume_header_info
| ./test1/a -- okay
| test1/b -- okay
| test1/c -- okay
| test1 -- okay
| test2 -- okay
| . -- okay
| afio: 10k+0 bytes written in 0 seconds. The operation was successful.
| ...

Now I extract the files from the archive (using flexbackup -extract) an file
a is missing. I tried the same using tar and it works without problems.

flexbackup is 1.0pre4
afio is 2.4.7 from Debian Woody

Markus

Re: [flexbackup-help] /dev/nst0: Input/output error

[Brian B. <bb...@my...>]

Thanks for the direction.  I'll try the things you suggested.  BTW, the 
following is the output of 'mt -f /dev/nst0 status':

SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x45 (QIC-3095-MC (TR-4)).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
 BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN

My drive is a Connor CTT8000-A (IDE drive that takes Travan TR-4 tapes.

BB

Brian Barber
Ottawa, ON   CANADA
brian.barber at mysun.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Edwin Huffstutler <ed...@co...>
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2003 10:36 am
Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] /dev/nst0: Input/output error

> 
> [ Brian Barber wrote: ]
> > I'm a flexbackup amateur.  Below is the output of my nightly 
> cron job 
> > from last night.  Am I looking at a defective tape?
> 
> Not sure. 
> 
> I'd try the following:
> 
> - Set $buffer=false or give "-d buffer=false" on the commandline and
>   just see how things operate with plain 'dd'.  You could also turn
>   compression to false just to take one program out of the 
> pipeline as you
>   debug.
> 
> - Try changing your $blksize.  Depending on the tape drive and 
> driver, it
>   may not like 10.  Try 64 or 32?
> 
> - Switch the value of $mt_var_blksize.  This again depends on the 
> drive.
> "mt -f /dev/nst0 status" can sometimes be useful; sometimes you 
> can get
> extended error info.
> 
> (You might also want to try out the latest 1.0pre version that I've
> recently put out, after a few years of non-maintenance...  
> Although your
> problem seems to be just related to tape drive specifics, that hasn't
> really changed)
> 
> -Edwin
> 
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Re: [flexbackup-help] /dev/nst0: Input/output error

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

[ Brian Barber wrote: ]
> I'm a flexbackup amateur.  Below is the output of my nightly cron job 
> from last night.  Am I looking at a defective tape?

Not sure. 

I'd try the following:

 - Set $buffer=false or give "-d buffer=false" on the commandline and
   just see how things operate with plain 'dd'.  You could also turn
   compression to false just to take one program out of the pipeline as you
   debug.

 - Try changing your $blksize.  Depending on the tape drive and driver, it
   may not like 10.  Try 64 or 32?

 - Switch the value of $mt_var_blksize.  This again depends on the drive.

"mt -f /dev/nst0 status" can sometimes be useful; sometimes you can get
extended error info.

(You might also want to try out the latest 1.0pre version that I've
recently put out, after a few years of non-maintenance...  Although your
problem seems to be just related to tape drive specifics, that hasn't
really changed)

 -Edwin

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[flexbackup-help] /dev/nst0: Input/output error

[Brian B. <bb...@my...>]

I'm a flexbackup amateur.  Below is the output of my nightly cron job 
from last night.  Am I looking at a defective tape?

BB

Brian Barber
Ottawa, ON   CANADA
brian.barber at mysun.com


flexbackup version 0.9.8 <fle...@ho...>
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 0 backup of all using dump
| Retensioning tape...
| Rewinding & erasing tape...
| Creating index key 200301250403.31
| Tape #0
| Filesystems = / /boot
|------------------------------------------------
At block 32.
|------------------------------------------------
| File number 1, index key 200301250403.31
| Backup of: /
| Date of this level 0 backup: Sat Jan 25 04:03:36 2003
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------
| (dump -0 -b 10 -a -f - / | gzip -4) | buffer -m 3m -s 10k -u 100 -t -
p 75 -B \
|  -o /dev/nst0 
|------------------------------------------------
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jan 25 04:03:37 2003
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda6 (/) to standard output
  DUMP: Label: none
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 1031608 tape blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Sat Jan 25 04:04:52 2003
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output error
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=-1, total written         30K
  DUMP: Broken pipe
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
|------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Sat Jan 25 04:03:36 2003
| Backup end:   Sat Jan 25 04:05:25 2003
|------------------------------------------------
/dev/nst0: Input/output error
|------------------------------------------------
| File number 2, index key 200301250403.31
| Backup of: /boot
| Date of this level 0 backup: Sat Jan 25 04:05:36 2003
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------
| (dump -0 -b 10 -a -f - /boot | gzip -4) | buffer -m 3m -s 10k -u 100 -
t -p \
|  75 -B -o /dev/nst0 
|------------------------------------------------
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jan 25 04:05:36 2003
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda1 (/boot) to standard output
  DUMP: Label: none
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 2060 tape blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Sat Jan 25 04:05:37 2003
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Sat Jan 25 04:05:39 2003
  DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:02
  DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 1026 KB/s
  DUMP: 2052 tape blocks (2.00MB)
  DUMP: finished in 2 seconds, throughput 1026 KBytes/sec
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jan 25 04:05:36 2003
  DUMP: Date this dump completed:  Sat Jan 25 04:05:39 2003
  DUMP: Average transfer rate: 1026 KB/s
  DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output error
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=-1, total written         30K
|------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Sat Jan 25 04:05:36 2003
| Backup end:   Sat Jan 25 04:05:39 2003
|------------------------------------------------
/dev/nst0: Input/output error
|------------------------------------------------
| Rewinding...
| Compressing log (all.0.20030125.gz)
| Linking all.latest.gz -> all.0.20030125.gz
|------------------------------------------------

File  Contents    (tape index 200301250403.31)
-----------------------------------------------
0   <tape index key>
1   level 0 / Sat Jan 25 04:03:36 2003 dump+gzip from chico
2   level 0 /boot Sat Jan 25 04:05:36 2003 dump+gzip from chico

Re: [flexbackup-help] flexbackup abort

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

[ mar...@eq... wrote: ]
> Hi All,
> 
> I have tested flexbackup with data of less than 1G on a Tanberg SLR 5 (
> tapes 4G/8G )
> But with data of 3.8G the DUMP aborts with a message pipe broken
> 
> Any ideas ?

Are you using buffering?

Since I recently picked things up again and was testing, I noticed that the
'buffer' program has never been updated to have large file support (>2Gb).

I ran into this archiving to files; I'd have to go check if the same offset
issue occurs with char devices like tapes, but my hunch is it still applies.

Try with the backup with "-d buffer=false" and see if the problem goes
away. 

If that's the case, turn buffering off in the config file. I also put a
.src.rpm and a RH 8 binary rpm of 'buffer' on
http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net, that force-compile it for large files,
you might try those if you are using RedHat or other rpm-based dist.


 -Edwin


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[flexbackup-help] flexbackup abort

[<mar...@eq...>]

Hi All,

I have tested flexbackup with data of less than 1G on a Tanberg SLR 5 (
tapes 4G/8G )
But with data of 3.8G the DUMP aborts with a message pipe broken

Any ideas ?

cheers

Mark

Re: [flexbackup-help] Doing manual Tape changes

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

[ Michael van de Holden wrote: ]
> Has anyone a clue how to use flexbackup 0.9.9.6 with manual tape changes in 
> backup with onstream di 30 tape drive?
> 
> got the whole bunch working, just missing a prompt for tape change. The 
> Filesystem option does not help as there a filesystems larger than a single 
> tape.

If one backup directory is larger than a single tape, it won't prompt for
change right now.  Couldn't yet find a generic way to do that kind of
thing.  Some of the individual archiver programs offer this option.
Depending on what type you are using, you could add the command flags for
it.

You could split it into sub-dirs perhaps as a hokey workaround.

Other people have been using flexbackup since I was pretty much absent for
a long time, and might have patches or solutions... but I'm not sure.

 -Edwin


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[flexbackup-help] Doing manual Tape changes

[Michael v. de H. <inv...@ho...>]

Has anyone a clue how to use flexbackup 0.9.9.6 with manual tape changes in 
backup with onstream di 30 tape drive?

got the whole bunch working, just missing a prompt for tape change. The 
Filesystem option does not help as there a filesystems larger than a single 
tape.

greets
Michael

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