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Disk ARchiver command line questions |
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From: Thufir <hawat.thufir <at> gmail.com> |
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Subject: Disk ARchiver command line questions |
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Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general |
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Date: 2007-10-17 09:09:22 GMT |
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I've been reading the man pages, but command line stuff isn't my forte :( |
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I want to backup some data using DAR (Disk ARchive) and here's what I |
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have so far: |
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arrakis ~ # |
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arrakis ~ # |
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arrakis ~ # ls -alh /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00/home/ |
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total 24K |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 17 01:55 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 24 500 500 4.0K Oct 16 22:47 .. |
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drwx------ 30 500 500 4.0K Oct 16 22:47 thufir |
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arrakis ~ # |
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arrakis ~ # dar --create /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00/home/thufir/ --slice |
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690M --tree-format --beep --pause |
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862 inode(s) saved |
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with 0 hard link(s) recorded |
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0 inode(s) changed at the moment of the backup |
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0 inode(s) not saved (no inode/file change) |
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0 inode(s) failed to save (filesystem error) |
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0 inode(s) ignored (excluded by filters) |
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0 inode(s) recorded as deleted from reference backup |
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Total number of inode considered: 862 |
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EA saved for 0 inode(s) |
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arrakis ~ # |
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arrakis ~ # ls -alh /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00/home/total 106M |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 17 01:57 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 24 500 500 4.0K Oct 16 22:47 .. |
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drwx------ 30 500 500 4.0K Oct 16 22:47 thufir |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106M Oct 17 01:57 thufir.1.dar |
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arrakis ~ # |
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arrakis ~ # date |
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Wed Oct 17 01:58:01 PDT 2007 |
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arrakis ~ # |
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Starting with the least important questions and increasing in |
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significance: |
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1.) How can I change the command so the .dar files are named backup. |
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[n].dar instead of thufir.[n].dar? |
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2.) As it stands, it's going to take 862 slices to backup this data |
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without compression? I asked for slices of 690M, why is it only showing |
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as 106M for this particular slice? |
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3.) Do I just burn thufir.1.dar to disc (CD-R) as a regular data disc |
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using, for example, the builti-in nautilus burner? |
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4.) How do I get DAR to generate the second slice? |
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I know that these questions are answered in the manual, and I've read the |
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manual, but they still elude me. |
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thanks, |
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Thufir |
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ps: what's good about DAR, you ask? |
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DIRECT ACCESS |
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even using compression dar has not to read the whole backup to extract |
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one file. This way if you just want to restore one file from a huge |
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backup, the process will be much faster than using tar. |
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