Hi Michael. Yes, Flexbackup is not very easy to use. Here is a few tips I picked up from Peter Samuel during our Flexbackup testing. The e-smith implementation of Flexbackup uses 'dump'. Dump doesn't use/create indexes. (Go figure) So, the -toc command doesn't have anything to report. Try this for testing: flexbackup -fs /tmp mt -f /dev/st0 fsf 1 flexbackup -extract Note -extract will extract into your current directory location. My recommendation, use Taper :) Regards, Darrell > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Doerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 9:23 PM > To: e-smith-devinfo (E-mail) > Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] Flexbackup -toc ..result: This tape doesn't > have an index! > > > I am trying flexbackup again (under e-smith 4.01) and find it a bit > difficult ... > > For testing purposes, I do a backup for a specific directory with > > 1. initialise a new tape: "flexbackup -newtape" > which results in: > > flexbackup version 0.9.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK > > |------------------------------------------------ > | Rewinding & erasing tape... > | Creating index key 200101221755.21 > |------------------------------------------------ > > 2. run the backup with "flexbackup -fs /tmp" > results: > > flexbackup version 0.9.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK > > |------------------------------------------------ > | Doing level 0 backup of /tmp using dump > | ERROR: This tape doesn't have an index! (use -erase?) > | Making sure tape is at end of data... > |------------------------------------------------ > At block 3. > |------------------------------------------------ > | Backup of: /tmp > | Note: $exclude_expr is ignored for dump > | Date of this level 0 backup: Mon Jan 22 18:04:14 2001 > | Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch > |------------------------------------------------ > | (dump -0 -b 64 -B 4000000 -f - /tmp | gzip -4) | buffer -m > 3m -s 64k -u > 100 \ > | -t -p 75 -B -o /dev/nst0 > |------------------------------------------------ > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jan 22 18:04:14 2001 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda6 (/) to standard output > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 565 tape blocks. > DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Mon Jan 22 18:04:15 2001 > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] > DUMP: DUMP: 494 tape blocks > DUMP: finished in less than a second > DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Mon Jan 22 18:04:15 2001 > DUMP: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jan 22 18:04:14 2001 > DUMP: DUMP: Date this dump completed: Mon Jan 22 18:04:15 2001 > DUMP: DUMP: Average transfer rate: 0 KB/s > DUMP: DUMP IS DONE > Kilobytes Out 64 > |------------------------------------------------ > | Backup start: Mon Jan 22 18:04:14 2001 > | Backup end: Mon Jan 22 18:04:18 2001 > |------------------------------------------------ > At block 5. > |------------------------------------------------ > | Rewinding... > | Compressing log (tmp.0.20010122.gz) > | Linking tmp.latest.gz -> tmp.0.20010122.gz > |------------------------------------------------ > > There are already a few questions: > 1. Dump talks about 494 tape blocks but the log makes me > believe the data > takes from block 3 to block 5 only (might be different > "blocks" meant here?) > 2. Average transfer rate 0 KB? > > When I try "flexbackup -toc" > results: > flexbackup version 0.9.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK > > |------------------------------------------------ > | ERROR: This tape doesn't have an index! (use -erase?) > |------------------------------------------------ > > And here I am stuck. BTW, it's an older SCSI tape device, a > Wangdat 3200. > > Anybody with more experience for that? Darrell, Brandon where > are you ;-) > > Regards, > Michael Doerner > > > -- > This list is archived > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
