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
