From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 29 10:16:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alchemistry.net (alchemistry.net [160.79.102.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9AA337B42C for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mail@krel.org) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (helo=ilya) by alchemistry.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14tuoE-0002KB-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:16:34 -0400 Message-ID: <001d01c0d0d0$3843db40$0100a8c0@ilya> From: "Ilya" To: References: <200104291333.GAA02934@snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net> <20010429103238.A15306@marx.alton1.il.home.com> Subject: Backup and Recovery Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:17:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can anyone point me to a set of good backup scripts, which allow for fast recovery, and allow several filesystems to be put on one tape? I have tried to use flexbackup, and it doesn backup, but any restore operations (or list) confuse the hell out of it. and it refuses to recognize its own tapes: flexbackup -list flexbackup version 0.9.8 /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK |------------------------------------------------ mt: compression: unknown command Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/bin/flexbackup line 2237. | Reading from current tape position |------------------------------------------------ /dev/sa0: hardware block location 0 |------------------------------------------------ | dd ibs=10k obs=10k conv=noerror,sync if=/dev/sa0 | restore -t -v -b 10 -f - |------------------------------------------------ dd: /dev/sa0: Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 6.381919 secs (0 bytes/sec) dd: /dev/sa0: Operation not permitted 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 10240 bytes transferred in 6.383113 secs (1604 bytes/sec) Tape is not a dump tape Verify tape and initialize maps dd: /dev/sa0: Operation not permitted 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 20480 bytes transferred in 6.394473 secs (3203 bytes/sec) Apr 29 12:34:37 alchemistry (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): 65536-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer |------------------------------------------------ /dev/sa0: hardware block location 0 |------------------------------------------------ am i doing smth wrong? has anyone been able to use flexbackup successfully? please let me know. i tried also to use gzip with dump. but tapes are not recognized again. I am ok with saving index to disk, i can always coy it to remote location thx for help in advance To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message