On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Orville Carter wrote:
> G' Morning all,.....(Yawwwnn!) Sorry!
>
> I am using the latest flexbackup (e-smith-backup-1.2.0-11.noarch.rpm)
>
> My question: Is flexbackup appending, or overwriting the tape from the
> beginning????
You can tell that it isn't writing at the end of the tape from the
output below:
> flexbackup version 0.9.8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK
>
> |------------------------------------------------
> | Doing level 0 backup of all using dump
> | Retensioning tape...
> | Rewinding & erasing tape...
> | Creating index key 200102280303.44
> | Tape #0
> | Filesystems = / /boot
> |------------------------------------------------
> At block 52.
Here you can see that the tape is positioned at block 52, which is
close to the beginning of the tape. So the problem is not because you
ran out of tape.
> |------------------------------------------------
> | File number 1, index key 200102280303.44
> | Backup of: /
....
> At block 52.
> |------------------------------------------------
> | Rewinding...
> | Compressing log (all.0.20010228.gz)
> | Linking all.latest.gz -> all.0.20010228.gz
> |------------------------------------------------
>
> File Contents (tape index 200102280303.44)
> -----------------------------------------------
> 0 <tape index key>
> 1 level 0 / Wed Feb 28 03:03:47 2001 dump+gzip from Server1
> 2 level 0 /boot Wed Feb 28 03:05:09 2001 dump+gzip from Server1
After the dump of both / and /boot, you're still at block 52 so
nothing was written to tape at all.
As to why this is happening I'm not sure.
--
Regards
Peter
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