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From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Hi Dan, this thread is very old. After numerous attempts at making
this work, I couldn't.
Yeah, I know it's an old one--I'd expected to be getting a tape
drive to mess with a lot sooner,
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Dan Brown wrote:
Finally got a tape drive to play with, so I gave this a try on a
5.5b9 box. Had a few problems; not quite sure what to do about them:
1./dev/nst0 doesn't exist. I guess the solution would be to
/bin/mknod /dev/nst0 c 9 128 (the 9 and 128
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As you've noted later, /dev/nst0 does exist. However, if you've
installed a SCSI host adaptor after you've installed your system,
there will be
The context was trying to restore a
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An excellent idea Charlie! Dan, (or anyone else able to test) if
you would, try adding these lines to the end of the ks.cfg file on
the reinstallation disk:
cd /
/bin/mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
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1./dev/nst0 doesn't exist. I guess the solution would be to
/bin/mknod /dev/nst0 c 9 128 (the 9 and 128 coming from /dev/nst0
on a live system) before starting any of the other operations.
Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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1. /dev/nst0 doesn't exist. I guess the solution would be to
Hi Dan, this thread is very old. After numerous attempts at making this
work, I couldn't.
In any
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:32, Dan Brown wrote:
Also, unless I'm pretty far off base, it shouldn't take much
tinkering to be able to restore a non-RAID system to a RAID one,
or
Wouldn't that
If you'd like a commercial solution, check out Backup-Edge from Microlite. I
believe they are located at www.microlite.com
Scott
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CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
BRU (Backup and Restore Utility) and CRU (Crash Recovery Utility) from
http://www.tolisgroup.com should do the trick. I have used BRU for a
while and really like it. I have not had a chance to play with CRU even
though I got it bundled with BRU.
Personally, I like the
I know mkCDrec works on Mandrake. I imagine it will work on Red Hat. It is
worth a looksee maybe? (maybe not)
Bob
On Monday 04 February 2002 11:58 pm, you wrote:
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:28:09PM -0500, Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Darrell May wrote:
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Dan, have you tried making a re-install floppy (from the
server-manager),
then modified the custom kickstart file on the floppy so that you chain
a
tape restore to the end of the installation?
An excellent
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Charlie Brady wrote:
Well, as you have since reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (thanks), there seems
to be a continuing problem with reinstall floppies, for some people at
least. We're investigating, and we'll let you know what we discover.
It does work for me. But with only
Quoting Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Wouldn't this be better done:
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event restore-tape
That would defeat at least one of my purposes for wanting this, that
being to restore _everything_ from the backup, including other software
(upgraded RPMs, web apps in /opt,
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Dan Brown wrote:
Quoting Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Wouldn't this be better done:
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event restore-tape
That would defeat at least one of my purposes for wanting this, that
being to restore _everything_ from the backup, including other
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Dan Brown wrote:
Quoting Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Wouldn't this be better done:
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event restore-tape
Right idea...
That would defeat at least one of my purposes for wanting this,
that
At 03:26 PM 2/5/02 +0100, Pierluigi Miranda wrote:
CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
BRU (Backup and Restore Utility) and CRU (Crash Recovery Utility) from
http://www.tolisgroup.com should do the trick. I have used BRU for a
while and really like it. I have not had a chance to play with CRU even
though
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underestimated what's already available. Essentially, right now
you can do a desktop or tape backup, and with your reinstallation
floppy, your SME Server CD, and that tape, rebuild the system. (Of
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:32, Dan Brown wrote:
Also, unless I'm pretty far off base, it shouldn't take much
tinkering to be able to restore a non-RAID system to a RAID one, or
vice versa. Seems like this could be a useful feature.
Wouldn't that require dynamic reconfiguration of (at
FYI it does work on SME5
http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download.html
e-Smith / SLES
I backed up and restored SME5. Thanks go to Gene Cooper for mailing me the SMS
CD (and several others, all of which are proving very useful). SLES - an
off-shoot of e-Smith - was backed up and restored
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Adam Sleight wrote:
FYI it does work on SME5
http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download.html
e-Smith / SLES I backed up and restored SME5. Thanks go to Gene
Cooper for mailing me the SMS CD (and several others, all of which are
proving very useful). SLES - an off-shoot
not sure what SLES is either..but first search result on google is
http://www.suse.de/en/sles/
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:44:46 -0500 (EST)
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Adam Sleight wrote:
not sure what SLES is either..but first search result on google is
http://www.suse.de/en/sles/
If so, I think we take the an off-shoot of e-Smith with a grain of salt.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:44:46 -0500 (EST)
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Adam Sleight wrote:
FYI it does work on SME5
http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download.html
e-Smith / SLES I backed up and restored SME5. Thanks go to Gene
Cooper for mailing me the SMS CD (and several others, all of which
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 08:30:53AM -0800, Adam Sleight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FYI it does work on SME5
http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download.html
Alas, it blew up spectacularly for me. I mean *spectactularly*. I've
never seen a shell die with a floating point exception before. :-)
That's
Hi Dan,
BRU (Backup and Restore Utility) and CRU (Crash Recovery Utility) from
http://www.tolisgroup.com should do the trick. I have used BRU for a
while and really like it. I have not had a chance to play with CRU even
though I got it bundled with BRU.
Regards,
Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 10:20:57PM -0500, Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo
Excellent! Last time I looked, it didn't support tape, which was a
bit of a drawback (a full server
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http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download.html
Alas, it blew up spectacularly for me. I mean *spectactularly*.
I've never seen a shell die with a floating point exception before.
:-)
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Dan Brown wrote:
From: Rich Lafferty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download.html
Alas, it blew up spectacularly for me. I mean *spectactularly*.
I've never seen a shell die with a floating point exception before.
:-)
I
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Dan, have you tried making a re-install floppy (from the
server-manager),
then modified the custom kickstart file on the floppy so that you chain
a
tape restore to the end of the installation?
An excellent idea Charlie! Dan, (or anyone else able to
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Dan, have you tried making a re-install floppy (from the
server-manager), then modified the custom kickstart file on the
floppy so that you chain a tape restore to the end of the
installation?
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:28:09PM -0500, Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download.html
Alas, it blew up spectacularly for me. I mean *spectactularly*.
I've never seen a shell die with
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Dan Brown wrote:
I've been kicking around for a while the idea of an emergency
restore system for e-smith/SME. The way I envision it, you'd boot
off whatever medium (boot floppy or CD), and it would automatically
(after confirmation) repartition and reformat the
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 05:23:32PM -0500, Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I've been kicking around for a while the idea of an emergency
restore system for e-smith/SME. The way I envision it, you'd boot
off whatever medium (boot floppy or CD), and it would
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http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo
Excellent! Last time I looked, it didn't support tape, which was a
bit of a drawback (a full server backup would take several CDs).
Even looks like he's
Dan, Rich,
I have been very interested in the Mondo Rescue on e-smith, however I am
very green in the development part, however I do have plenty of test
servers and would love to give a hand on test. Also the green factor
couldn't hurt in the ease-of-use area.
Steve Lewis
At 10:20 PM 2/3/02
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