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Hi, |
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I actually solved my problem seconds before I was about to send this email, |
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I used winzip to untar the backup script files into a samba share on the |
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Linux server and got the errors below, I then used tar on the Linux box to |
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untar and the scripts worked. |
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We will only backup /home /root /var/www and /etc. We have a policy of |
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rebuilding machines from scratch and restoring the 'userdata' from tape if |
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a system has a total disk fail.... I will continue to experiment with |
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different options and have a go at restoring a complete system from tape |
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with star on the test box... but need to learn more about restoring grub n |
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stuff... actually that's a hole gray area not covered, not to worry I enjoy |
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a Linux challenge as you learn better that way :) |
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I didn't find Linux Tape Cert very useful, for DLT drives I couldn't find |
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anything on block size, Quantum suggest 128k or at least 64k |
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There is at least one error, page 20 - A simple verify: # star -tv -f |
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bs=[blocksize] /dev/nst0 should read # star -tv bs=[blocksize] -f /dev/nst0 |
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( -f is in the wrong place :) |
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Apart from that I found your Article extremely practical, in the past we |
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just used dump as that's what we use on our DEC Alpha's (vdump) we will most |
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likely make the change to Star for our production Linux/Samba file servers. |
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Good to see someone finally writing some decent doco for Linux, keep it up |
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(original message) |
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I have been using your article on IBM dW to test as a better backup solution |
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for our Linux systems. |
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I am testing with RedHat Linux 7.2 (ext3fs) and a DLT TZ88 Tape drive |
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(20/40gb) we use only DLT for their robustness. |
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all your example commands work nice, I made one small change, a sym link |
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called /dev/tape that points to /dev/nst0, mt expects /dev/tape if you don't |
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tell it what device, saves a bit of typing when playing around. |
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when I try to run your backup scripts I get errors, unfortunately I not much |
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of a script wizard. |
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here is the output of the unmodified scripts |
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[root@whg-data2-t backup-tools-1.0]# ls |
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backup backup-tools.sh |
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[root@whg-data2-t backup-tools-1.0]# ./backup |
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: command not found |
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: No such file or directory |
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: command not found |
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'/backup: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `{ |
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'/backup: line 6: `bt_backup() { |
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[root@whg-data2-t backup-tools-1.0]# |
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Lonney Harper |
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Computer Operations |
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Information Systems |
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Northland District Health Board |
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Whangarei |
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New Zealand |
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+64 9 430 4100 |
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lonneyh@××××××.nz |
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http://www.northlanddhb.org.nz/ |