Re: Debian (not Linux) newbie
I can't help you there. While I use (and maintain) tob and afio, I never use muti-volume backups as I do them off-line anyway. I just define my backup volumes such that they will fit on one 170 MB tape. That holds /etc, /home and /usr/local, which is all I need. -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Debian (not Linux) newbie
@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #2 N Hi again all... Question #2 of problems getting Debian install. I tried a test install of Pacific Hi-Tech's Debian 1.1.1 CD-ROM on another hard drive (not the one I'm trying to backup) on Friday. All went okay until I got to the part about making a boot floppy. When prompted I stuck a blank floppy in drive a:. The installation program churned out a bunch of 'probing for floppy0' messages and eventually died with 'can't find device' error. I figured it was a bad floppy, so I stuck in another. Same result. Stuck in a third disk. Same thing again. I finally booted Red Hat and just copied over my 2.0.17 kernel to a floppy, ran rdev to set / properly. When I rebooted with the floppy Debian came up. My question is, am I doing something wrong with the Debian installation or is there a bug in 1.1.1? Debian looks like an interesting Linux distribution to play with--as soon as I get things properly backed up and installed. :-) Thanks in advance for any help y'all can offer. Bob ... * ATP/Linux 1.42 * Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
Debian (not Linux) newbie
@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #1 N Hi all, I've been running Linux for almost a year now. I started with Slackware, moved to Red Hat 3.0.3 now I want to move to Debian. I will be moving Red Hat to another machine once I get Debian configured the way I want. I am having two problems getting things set up. One is related to Debian, the other is more Linux in general but I hope someone can get me pointed in the proper direction. First problem is about the backup utilities tob and taper. Up until recently, I have been able to backup my hard drives to tape (floppy tape drive using zftape v1.05) using a single 200 MB (uncompressed) tape. The drive is 1.6 GB and until recently it has not been too full. However, I have now reached the point where I need more than one tape and this is where my trouble started. When I use tob and get to the end of the first tape, afio doesn't prompt for another tape. All it is does it print a 'tape full' error for every remaining file. In /etc/tob.rc, I have the BACKUPCMD set to: BACKUPCMD='afio -oxZv -b 10240 -s0 -T 3k -G 9 $BACKUPDEV $FILELIST' The -b 10240 was necessary because without it afio complains about a bad block size while writing to the tape. If I understand the man page for afio, -s0 should make afio pause when a tape fills. It doesn't. With -s0, afio behavior is the same. It keeps trying writing to the full tape. I tried using using taper (with zftape). When the tape fills up, taper chokes with a child segmentation error in a dialog box. If I click on the 'OK', taper just hangs. When I didn't fill the tape, taper would work just fine. I've seen folks mention on the list use both tob and taper with success, so I must be doing something wrong. Can someone give me a clue to what it is? :-) Thanks! Bob ... * ATP/Linux 1.42 * Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
Debian (not Linux) newbie
@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #2 N Hi again all... Question #2 of problems getting Debian install. I tried a test install of Pacific Hi-Tech's Debian 1.1.1 CD-ROM on another hard drive (not the one I'm trying to backup) on Friday. All went okay until I got to the part about making a boot floppy. When prompted I stuck a blank floppy in drive a:. The installation program churned out a bunch of 'probing for floppy0' messages and eventually died with 'can't find device' error. I figured it was a bad floppy, so I stuck in another. Same result. Stuck in a third disk. Same thing again. I finally booted Red Hat and just copied over my 2.0.17 kernel to a floppy, ran rdev to set / properly. When I rebooted with the floppy Debian came up. My question is, am I doing something wrong with the Debian installation or is there a bug in 1.1.1? Debian looks like an interesting Linux distribution to play with--as soon as I get things properly backed up and installed. :-) Thanks in advance for any help y'all can offer. Bob ... * ATP/Linux 1.42 * Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
Debian (not Linux) newbie
@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #1 N Hi all, I've been running Linux for almost a year now. I started with Slackware, moved to Red Hat 3.0.3 now I want to move to Debian. I will be moving Red Hat to another machine once I get Debian configured the way I want. I am having two problems getting things set up. One is related to Debian, the other is more Linux in general but I hope someone can get me pointed in the proper direction. First problem is about the backup utilities tob and taper. Up until recently, I have been able to backup my hard drives to tape (floppy tape drive using zftape v1.05) using a single 200 MB (uncompressed) tape. The drive is 1.6 GB and until recently it has not been too full. However, I have now reached the point where I need more than one tape and this is where my trouble started. When I use tob and get to the end of the first tape, afio doesn't prompt for another tape. All it is does it print a 'tape full' error for every remaining file. In /etc/tob.rc, I have the BACKUPCMD set to: BACKUPCMD='afio -oxZv -b 10240 -s0 -T 3k -G 9 $BACKUPDEV $FILELIST' The -b 10240 was necessary because without it afio complains about a bad block size while writing to the tape. If I understand the man page for afio, -s0 should make afio pause when a tape fills. It doesn't. With -s0, afio behavior is the same. It keeps trying writing to the full tape. I tried using using taper (with zftape). When the tape fills up, taper chokes with a child segmentation error in a dialog box. If I click on the 'OK', taper just hangs. When I didn't fill the tape, taper would work just fine. I've seen folks mention on the list use both tob and taper with success, so I must be doing something wrong. Can someone give me a clue to what it is? :-) Thanks! Bob ... * ATP/Linux 1.42 * Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
