Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:57:37 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP: Problem backing up multiple filesystems on tape Message-ID: <20010927085741.4970937B40C@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3BB2D618.1040705@comm.uni-bremen.de> References: <3BB1AFE6.4040106@comm.uni-bremen.de> <3BB2D618.1040705@comm.uni-bremen.de>
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On Thursday 27 September 2001 9:32 am, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > 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? yes, tar! > > Please help, since my new server is useless if i cannot back it up! > ok ...send it to me then > The question again: How can i write and retrieve more than one filesystem > to one tape? hang on and I'll try it here > 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 / why c? > > > > 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? -- Boy! Eucalyptus! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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