From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 0:33:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from amerika.comm.uni-bremen.de (amerika.comm.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1130737B491 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:33:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oslo.comm.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.80] helo=comm.uni-bremen.de ident=rebehn) by amerika.comm.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15mVe3-0004Am-00; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:31:43 +0200 Message-ID: <3BB2D618.1040705@comm.uni-bremen.de> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:32:40 +0200 From: Heinrich Rebehn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Heinrich Rebehn Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PLEASE HELP: Problem backing up multiple filesystems on tape References: <3BB1AFE6.4040106@comm.uni-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, since i did not receive any reply to my post below, i repost. Does nobody on the list backup his or her data to tape? Or are you using other tools than dump? Please help, since my new server is useless if i cannot back it up! The question again: How can i write and retrieve more than one filesystem to one tape? TIA Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Hi list, > > I have successfully set up our new department server using 4.3-RELEASE. > I attached our DLT1 tape drive to the system and tried to do a backup. > However i am unable to write and retrieve multiple filesystems to one > tape. I had no problems with that under Solaris, Linux and OpenBSD , but > under FreeBSD things seem to be a bit different. > > What i tried was: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > root@antsrv1 [~] # mt rewind > root@antsrv1 [~] # dump 0caf /dev/nrsa0 / > > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Sep 26 12:29:25 2001 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/ad0s1a (/) to /dev/nrsa0 > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 49239 tape blocks. > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] > DUMP: DUMP: 49254 tape blocks on 1 volume > DUMP: finished in 31 seconds, throughput 1588 KBytes/sec > DUMP: Closing /dev/nrsa0 > DUMP: DUMP IS DONE > > root@antsrv1 [~] # dump 0caf /dev/nrsa0 /var > > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Sep 26 12:30:15 2001 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/ad0s1e (/var) to /dev/nrsa0 > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 4495 tape blocks. > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] > DUMP: DUMP: 4489 tape blocks on 1 volume > DUMP: finished in 1 seconds, throughput 4489 KBytes/sec > DUMP: Closing /dev/nrsa0 > DUMP: DUMP IS DONE > > root@antsrv1 [~] # mt rewind > root@antsrv1 [~] # restore tf /dev/nrsa0 > /dev/null > > Level 0 dump of / on antsrv1.comm.uni-bremen.de:/dev/ad0s1a > Label: none > > root@antsrv1 [~] # restore tf /dev/nrsa0 > /dev/null > > Tape is not a dump tape <===! > > root@antsrv1 [~] # > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Why am i unable to retrieve the second dump? I also played with > filemarks, but to no avail. > Any suggestions? > -- Heinrich Rebehn "Have disk - will travel" University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - E-mail: mailto:rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax : -3341 --------------------------------------------- Leon : And stop saying "okay" all the time! Okay? Mathilda: Okay. Leon : Good. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message