Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:46:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: flexbackup problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104171644480.53619-100000@ns1.coastsight.com>
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Here are the errors..... Help with making this work is appreciated.
root@ns1:/# flexbackup
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/local/bin/flexbackup line 82.
flexbackup version 0.9.8 <flexbackup@home.com>
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK
Errors:
Nothing to do (see -help)
root@ns1:/# flexbackup -list
flexbackup version 0.9.8 <flexbackup@home.com>
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK
|------------------------------------------------
mt: compression: unknown command
Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/local/bin/flexbackup
line 2242.
| Reading from current tape position
|------------------------------------------------
/dev/rsa0: hardware block location 0
|------------------------------------------------
| buffer -m 3m -s 64k -u 100 -t -p 75 -B -i /dev/rsa0 | afio -t -z -D \
| /usr/local/bin/flexbackup -v -b 64k -
|------------------------------------------------
buffer (reader): failed to read input: Input/output error
afio: "-": No input
|------------------------------------------------
/dev/rsa0: hardware block location 0
|------------------------------------------------
root@ns1:/# cat /etc/flexbackup.conf
# -*-Mode: perl-*-
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Flexbackup configuration file
#
# $Id: flexbackup.conf,v 1.36 1999/11/03 03:13:42 edwinh Exp $
# $Name: v0_9_8 $
#
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# General configuration section
# Archive type? afio, dump, tar, cpio, or zip
$type = 'afio';
# List the filesystems you wish to dump when 'all' is given
# Just a simple space-separated list
# Remote filesystems should denoted as 'host:dir'
#
# Example:
# $filesystems[0] = '/ /usr /home machine1:/usr machine2:/home';
#
# If you want an 'all' level 0 backup to span multiple tapes, add more
lines
# You will be prompted for tape change in between.
#
$filesystems[0] = '/ /usr';
#$filesystems[1] = '/home otherhost:/bigdisk';
# Compression
$compress = 'hardware'; # one of false/gzip/bzip2/compress/hardware
$compr_level = '4'; # compression level (1-9) (for gzip/bzip2/zip)
# Buffering
$buffer = 'true'; # true to use "buffer" program to help streaming
$buffer_megs = '3'; # buffer memory size (in megabytes)
$pad_blocks = 'true'; # true to pad blocks to blocksize
# Device to backup to - non-rewinding version please!
#
# Examples:
# Linux SCSI: /dev/nst0 Linux IDE: /dev/nht0
# Linux ftape: /dev/nqft0 FreeBSD SCSI: /dev/rsa0
#
# If a directory, archive to files in that directory rather than a device
#
$device = '/dev/rsa0';
# Block size (k) to use (default for most things is 10)
$blksize = '64';
# True to use "variable" block size for the tape device (mt setblk 0)
# If false, will use the $blksize parameter above. All non-mt commands
# will still use $blksize regardless of this value
$mt_var_blksize = 'true';
# Other global flags
$remoteshell = 'rsh'; # command for remote shell (rsh/ssh/ssh2)
$verbose = 'true'; # echo each file? (for afio/tar/cpio/zip)
$sparse = 'true'; # handle sparse files (for afio/tar/cpio)
$indexes = 'true'; # false to turn off all table-of-contents support
# Span across filesytems? ("dump" will ignore this option)
# Set to "false" (don't) , "local" (all but nfs), or "all" (everything)
$traverse_fs = 'false';
# Exclude files that match these *regular expressions* (not shell
wildcards)
# from the backups (no affect on 'dump' archives). You can list more than
one,
# just keep incrementing the index in the brackets for each. Also, strip
off
# leading directories (the filesystem specs above or the "-fs" flag).
# Comment these out to exclude nothing.
#$exclude_expr[0] = 'news/articles';
#$exclude_expr[1] = '.*~$'; #'# single quote so emacs font-lock is happy
# File extensions that should not be compressed (seperate with spaces)
# For afio and zip only (since they do each file individually)
$nocompress_types = 'mp3 Z z gz gif zip lha jpeg jpg taz tgz deb rpm bz2';
# If true (default), level zero "all" assumes you want to erase and use
# a new tape. If false, level zero "all" appends like all other backups
$erase_tape_all_level_zero = 'true';
# Set this to "true" to make erase operations just rewind - not really
# call "mt erase". For some tape drives, erase takes hours rather
# than seconds
$erase_rewind_only = 'true';
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Log/stamp files, path for temporary files
$logdir = "/var/log/flexbackup"; # directory for log files
$stampdir = "/var/run/flexbackup"; # directory for backup timestamps
$index = "$stampdir/index"; # DB filename for tape indexes
$comp_log = "gzip"; # compress
log? false/gzip/bzip2/compress
$prefix = ""; # log files will start with this
prefix
$sprefix = ""; # stamp files will start with this
prefix
$tmpdir = "/usr/tmp"; # used for temporary refdate
files, etc
# Why do I suggest /var/state/flexbackup for the stamp/indexes?
# See the FHS, http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-5.11.html
# BSD users probably want /var/db/flexbackup
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Parameters for 'afio' only
# True to show block numbers
$afio_echo_block = 'false';
# Files less than this size (kilobytes) won't be compressed
$afio_compress_threshold = '3';
# Maximum amount of memory (megabytes) to use for temporary storage of
# compression results. If a compressed file is bigger than this,
compression
# will have to run twice on the file (see manpage).
$afio_compress_cache_size = '2';
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Parameters for 'tar' only
# True to show record numbers
$tar_echo_record_num = 'false';
# True to preserve file access times
$tar_atime_preserve = 'true';
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Parameters for 'cpio' only
# Format of cpio archive
$cpio_format = 'newc';
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Parameters for 'dump' only
# Estimated tape size (in kilobytes). This number doesn't really do much
# but help 'dump' get size estimates if set to zero uses 'dump -a'
$dump_length = '0';
# True to use /etc/dumpdates (could mess things up if you dump
subdirectories
# of mount points). False to use flexbackup's timestamps.
$dump_use_dumpdates = 'false';
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Parameters for 'zip' only
######################################################################
# Leave '1;' on the the next line - for perl 'require'
1;
Thanks...
Sincerely,
Rick Duvall
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