Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:15:40 -0500 From: Joseph Koenig <joe@jwebmedia.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Backup Options Message-ID: <3B818C0C.E7661ADA@jwebmedia.com> References: <3B817889.681AC1C5@jwebmedia.com> <3B817DAB.689A522C@iowna.com> <3B818768.C276E696@jwebmedia.com> <3B81882E.51970B49@iowna.com>
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Ugh...I don't see the drive being recognized on startup...Below is my
dmesg. Maybe I just don't know what I'm looking for. Any ideas? Thanks,
Joe
localhost# /sbin/dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.3-20010813-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 13 14:37:59 GMT 2001
root@usw3.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (993.33-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x686 Stepping = 6
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory = 1073676288 (1048512K bytes)
avail memory = 1041190912 (1016788K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc047b000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib1: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pcib4: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=0962)> at device 2.0 on pci1
pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib4
pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=0x9005, dev=0x00c5) at 4.0 irq 11
pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=0x9005, dev=0x00c5) at 4.1 irq 10
aac0: <Dell PERC 3/Di> mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff irq 11 at device 2.1 on pci1
aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 126MB total memory, optional battery present (3)
aac0: Kernel 2.5-0, S/N fafaf0014c4c20d2
pcib0: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xecc0-0xecff mem
0xfe100000-0xfe1fffff,0xfe303000-0xfe303fff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci0
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:06:5b:19:5a:c2
inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp1: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xec80-0xecbf mem
0xfe000000-0xfe0fffff,0xfe302000-0xfe302fff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci0
fxp1: Ethernet address 00:02:b3:5e:d6:2b
inphy1: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus1
inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pci0: <ATI Mach64-GR graphics accelerator> at 14.0
isab0: <ServerWorks IB6566 PCI to ISA bridge> at device 15.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <ServerWorks ROSB4 ATA33 controller> port 0x8b0-0x8bf at device
15.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfe300000-0xfe300fff irq 5
at device 15.2 on pci0
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: (unknown) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pcib2: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib2
pcib3: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci4: <PCI bus> on pcib3
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem
0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcbfff,0xec000-0xeffff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
ata0-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr
ata0-slave: identify failed
acd0: CDROM <TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E> at ata0-master using PIO4
aacd0: <RAID 5> on aac0
aacd0: 34711MB (71089152 sectors)
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/aacd0s1a
Bill Moran wrote:
>
> Joseph Koenig wrote:
> >
> > Bill, thanks for the info. My system should be able to fit on the tape.
> > Does dump compress the data automatically, or should my tape drive do
> > that?
>
> dump doesn't do software compression, but it supports hardware compression
> if your tape drive does it. use "mt" to check and turn on compression if
> needed.
>
> > Are SCSI tape drives usually at /dev/st0? /dev/st0 isn't found on
> > my system.
>
> No, SCSI tapes will be /dev/sa# (/dev/sa0) If you don't have it, try
> using /dev/MAKEDEV to create the device. Check dmesg to see if it's
> detected at bootup, if it is, it'll probably work fine.
>
> > Bill Moran wrote:
> > >
> > > Joseph Koenig wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've been reading about backup options for Unix, and have found the
> > > > standard dump, dd, tar and cpio options. Just wondering if these were
> > > > the commonly used methods, or if there were better methods out there?
> > > > Dump looks pretty useful, but it apparently works best when set up to
> > > > follow an algorithm, which to me, looks difficult to implement via cron.
> > > > Any opinions? Thanks,
> > >
> > > I generally use dump as a cron job to do full backups every day (during
> > > off-peak hours) For this, it works great.
> > > If you're filesystem won't fit on a single tape and/or there is some
> > > other reason you can't take this approach, dump does offer options for
> > > incremental backups, I assume this is the "algorithm" you're talking
> > > about. It can be a little confusing.
> > > Also, dump handles multi-tape backups well. I have one client with a
> > > HUGE filesystem setup to rsync to a staging (backup) server during off-
> > > peak hours. The sysadmin can then backup to tape at his leasure during
> > > the day. The backup always comprises at least 2 25G DATs, and sometimes
> > > three.
> > > amanda is a possible option if you have more complex needs. It's in the
> > > ports. I haven't used it so I can't really vouch for it or not.
> > > There is also a commercial product available called BRU. I've not used
> > > it either (so I can't give an opinion) but you can find out more by
> > > searching http://mall.daemonnews.org
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > --
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> >
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