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)