Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:39:09AM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 22:04, Jayson Garrell wrote: Are you using that 160GB drive on a ultra100 controller? If so thats why it's only using 127GB. I had the same thing, 33GB sounded a bit high for partition information, and got a ultra133 controller and it sees the full drive capacity. So that explains it. Yes, this is an ultra100. Thanks for the info. It might not be if the controller is ATA 100 or 133 but the limitations of non ATA-6 controller you may want to check out a bios upgrade before the cost of a new controller since earlier controllers can not see beyond 137GB. http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/upgrade04_02_02.asp Peace Jim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 11:35, Jim Bailey wrote: It might not be if the controller is ATA 100 or 133 but the limitations of non ATA-6 controller you may want to check out a bios upgrade before the cost of a new controller since earlier controllers can not see beyond 137GB. http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/upgrade04_02_02.asp Thanks for that Jim. I'm just downloading bios upgrades from gigabyte. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 14:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 11:35, Jim Bailey wrote: It might not be if the controller is ATA 100 or 133 but the limitations of non ATA-6 controller you may want to check out a bios upgrade before the cost of a new controller since earlier controllers can not see beyond 137GB. http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/upgrade04_02_02.as p Thanks for that Jim. I'm just downloading bios upgrades from gigabyte. Thanks again. After bios upgrade I now have a partition of 152.6GB instead of 127GB. Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
Hi, I've got a number of 1394 hard drives. I'd like to set up some sort of a regular backup of my Gentoo box in the studio. Can someone recommend a tool that has an ebuild and will support backing up to a hard drive? I prefer a GUI based tool, or something very easy to remember how to use if it's command line based. Is your goal to back up the built-in drive to several 1394 drives? if the 1394 drives are as big or bigger than the built-in, you could just mount the 1394 and use rsync to mirror the built-in to the 1394. After the first time, rsync would be able to bring it up to date very quickly. I haven't messed with the hotplug stuff, but in theory, you could set up a script that did the mount and rsync when you plugged the drive in and sent you an email (or whatever) when it was done. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:35:33AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've got a number of 1394 hard drives. I'd like to set up some sort of a regular backup of my Gentoo box in the studio. Can someone recommend a tool that has an ebuild and will support backing up to a hard drive? I prefer a GUI based tool, or something very easy to remember how to use if it's command line based. I use mondo-archive (www.mondorescue.com) which is a great tool that allows you to back up (full or incrimental) to ISO, directly to CDR/RW, and is command line (sorry) so it's easy to run from cron. Some of the other things it supports are restoring to a different configuration (ie: back up your system and you want to try RAID, so you restore in expert mode, change your fstab setup, and let it continue, and it'll create your raid partitions and adjust filesystem sizes on the fly; or change partition size and layout; etc). Check it out, and take the time to put together the command line part (a gui is being worked on IIRC)... it's a powerful and relatively easy tool with an active development community. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
I use mondo-rescue, which can put the disk images anywhere (instead of
burning them). The best thing is that you can boot off CD1 and reload your
entire system from bare metal... (and I've partially done that once).
Last I checked it doesn't support grub though.
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From: Peter Ruskin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 4:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 19:35, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I've got a number of 1394 hard drives. I'd like to set
up some sort
of a regular backup of my Gentoo box in the studio. Can someone
recommend a tool that has an ebuild and will support
backing up to a
hard drive?
I prefer a GUI based tool, or something very easy to
remember how
to use if it's command line based.
Jason Calabrese [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted a nice script here
recently. It uses tar and is based on a backup disk dedicated to
backups, big enough to hold several.
I was so impressed I got myself a 160GB disk and adapted the
script as
follows. My complete backup (including Windows 98) is about
12GB so I
can get about 9 or 10 full backups on that disk and they only take an
hour on a cron job. Although the disk is nominally 160GB, when
formatted single partition the partition size is 127GB.
==
#! /bin/bash
# /usr/local/bin/backup
###
# Backup Script
###
# Jason Calabrese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# modified by Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01-Jun-03
BACKUP_TO=/mnt/backup
FILE=$BACKUP_TO/`hostname|cut -f1 -d.`-`date +%F-%H%M`.tar
FILE_LIST=$BACKUP_TO/`hostname|cut -f1 -d.`-`date
+%F-%H%M`.list OLD_FILE=$BACKUP_TO/`hostname|cut -f1
-d.`-`date --date='9 days ago'
+%F`
EXCLUDE='--exclude /mnt/.init.d --exclude /mnt/backup --exclude
/mnt/cdrom --exclude /mnt/floppy --exclude /mnt/KROH-LIESE --exclude
/mnt/KROH-PETER --exclude /mnt/PENGUIN --exclude /proc --exclude
/usr/portage/distfiles'
echoMounting boot partition...
mount /boot -o ro
echo
echoMounting backup disk...
mount $BACKUP_TO
sleep 4
echo
echoRemoving old archives...
echo
/bin/rm -f ${OLD_FILE}*.tar
/bin/rm -f ${OLD_FILE}*.list
echoPerforming backup - it'll be an hour or so...
echo
/bin/tar -cpvvf $FILE / $EXCLUDE $FILE_LIST
echoBackup finished at `date +'%H:%M'`
echo
USEDSPACE=$(du -h $BACKUP_TO | grep G | awk '{print $1}' |
cut -f1 -dG) FREESPACE=$(df | grep $BACKUP_TO | awk '{print
$5}') NUMBAKUPS=$(ls $BACKUP_TO/kroh-*.tar | wc -w | awk
'{print $1}') TOTALBLOCKS=$(cat /proc/partitions|grep
ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 | awk '{print $3}')
CAPACITY=$(($TOTALBLOCKS/1024/1024))
SPACELEFT=$(($CAPACITY-$USEDSPACE))
AVSIZE=$(($USEDSPACE/$NUMBAKUPS))
ESTBKUPS=$(($CAJason Calabrese
[EMAIL PROTECTED]PACITY/$AVSIZE))
echoCapacity of backup partition: ${CAPACITY}GB
echo
echoSpace occupied by backup partition: ${USEDSPACE}GB
echo
echoSpace left on backup partition: ${SPACELEFT}GB
echo
echoNumber of backups: $NUMBAKUPS
echo
echoAverage size per backup: ${AVSIZE}GB
echo
echoEstimated total number of backups: $ESTBKUPS
echo
echoUnmounting boot and backup partitions...
echo
/bin/umount -l /boot
/bin/umount -l $BACKUP_TO
echoSpinning down backup disk...
/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/hdc # spin down disk
# To restore a file, search for it in $FILE_LIST, e.g.
etc/fstab, then: # cd / # tar -xpvf $FILE etc/fstab
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Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 13:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: I was so impressed I got myself a 160GB disk and adapted the script as follows. My complete backup (including Windows 98) is about 12GB so I can get about 9 or 10 full backups on that disk and they only take an hour on a cron job. Although the disk is nominally 160GB, when formatted single partition the partition size is 127GB. Are you using that 160GB drive on a ultra100 controller? If so thats why it's only using 127GB. I had the same thing, 33GB sounded a bit high for partition information, and got a ultra133 controller and it sees the full drive capacity. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 16:39, Peter Ruskin wrote. So that explains it. Yes, this is an ultra100. Thanks for the info. Any time ;-) 33G is a lot to lose. BTW the Maxtor IDE cards are just re-branded Promise cards at but at a much cheaper price. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
