Re: [flexbackup-help] $erase_tape_set_level_zero
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Paul Bearne wrote: Hi am sure this is an old error It is, and you'll find the answer in the e-smith.org forums, not here. Bottom line, apply all updates and follow the instructions in the README file where you found them. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 592 5660 or 592 2122 Fax: +1 (613) 592 1175 A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ flexbackup-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] buffer not found in $PATH
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, James Hill wrote: I have just installed version 1.2.1 and it looks like just what I need for my backup purposes. However I am getting an error output when I attempt any commands that communicate with the tape drive. flexbackup version 1.2.1 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net) /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK Errors: buffer not found in $PATH Has anyone else had this error and found a solution? Have I missed something in the config file? Have you read and thought about the error message? Do you have the buffer program installed? If so, where, and what is the PATH variable set to when flexbackup runs? If not, disable the use of buffer in your config. -- Charlie --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ flexbackup-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] dumping a samba directory
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: does anyone know how to dump a samba directory ... You can't dump an smb file system (or maybe any remote file system). Try tar. Or star. Or do the backup on the system where the file system actually resides. -- Charlie --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] dumping a samba directory
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Carlos A. Sepulveda M. wrote: A Charlie Brady, el 29/01/05 01:43, se le ocurrio decir: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: does anyone know how to dump a samba directory ... You can't dump an smb file system (or maybe any remote file system). Try tar. Or star. Or do the backup on the system where the file system actually resides. What I do is to mount (smbmount) the directory and then use fb. Don't use dump for that filesystem (or any other network file system). -- Charlie --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] Determining Tape Drive Size
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Dan wrote: Problem: The system does not provide effectively for incremental backups, and in any case that would require sensible tape management. I want a full nightly backup on a new tape each night. However, the data set is too large for the tape, and restoring can be complex. I don't know how much it will help, but you could take a look at spantape - might not be too hard to fit underneath flexbackup: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spantape/ spantape is a replacement for dd that features the ability to sequentially span a stream of bytes across multiple SCSI tapes. It supports both fixed and variable block sizes and assures the correct order of tapes during data recovery. Author: Sebastian Zagrodzki -- Charlie --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] dd freezes.
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Gregory Malsack wrote: Hello All, I have an ide tape drive. (AIX2) 35/90gb tape drive. When I run a backup job I get several i/o errors. ... I find that the dd command freezes up and I cannot even kill -9 the process. (most likely because it is a kernel processes). Does anyone know why this processess might be looking up. I have the feeling it has something to do with ide-scsi. There's more chance that someone will be able to help you if you provide full information about your deployment. What OS, what kernel version, what tape drive? I'd suggest ide-scsi too, but I don't have any advice to offer as to how to fix or workaround the problem. -- Charlie --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] Buffer won't build
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Chip Burke wrote: I m trying to compile buffer from the src RPM, and I keep getting: rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/buffer.spec error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright error: line 5: Unknown tag: Copyright: GPL Do rpm -iv src.rpm, then edit /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/buffer.spec, and change: Copyright: GPL to License: GPL Then do: rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/buffer.spec BTW, what platform are you building on? And what version of rpm do you have (rpm --version)? -- Charlie A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text? --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] Problem with -list and -extract
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Sébastien MAS wrote: I have a n server redhat on linux 7.1 and flexbackup 1.2.1/buffer 1.19-5 When I create and archive is ok and I can list this file, but when my archive is more 2GB, I can't list and extract. RedHat 7.1!! Have you considered upgrading? I suspect that quite a few components of RH 7.1 were not compiled with large file support, so I'm not surprised you have problems. -- Charlie --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] What a shame flexbackup is *almost* there - but I have to reject it
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: flexbackup-at-worreby.ch |Lists| wrote: 1. Have you the slightest idea how it's done in the reality? That's standard procedure to restore full backup plus all incrementals you have... That is standard procedure, unless you have fancy expensive tools. Wouldn't you rather end up with a directory containing *exactly* b.conf - the exact contents of the directory when the incremental backup was made? Sure, but to create such a thing, you need a considerably more sophisticated process for creating incremental backups. The 'standard procedure' backs up all data created or modified since the last full backup. You only need the metadata of all the current data to do that, and that's all in the file system. You want deletion records for all data deleted since the last backup. You need both old and new metadata to construct that. Only the new metadata is contained in the file system. You also need an archive structure which contains deletion records. AFAIK tar, cpio etc don't handle that. You are right, I don't know EMC Networker, Veritas Netbackup, HP Data Protector, but I'm willing to bet they can restore a directory containing *exactly* b.conf. (Am I right?) I don't know. Is that question relevant to this list? Are you offering to sponsor the development of the features you find missing? Or are you complaining because the gift you received isn't exactly what you want? -- Charlie - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] gzip not reaped.
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote: I'm running 1.2.1 and on an occasional basis I end up with a gzip process that does not get reaped. It's not a zombie process, it's just hanging waiting for it's parent to reap it. Your statement doesn't make sense. A zombie is a process which has exited. The process's remains are kept by the kernel waiting for the parent to reap. Running processes (which have not exited) do not wait for their parents to reap them. A process is either still running, or it is a process which is a zombie and has not been reaped. There's no such thing as a dead process which has not been reaped which is not a zombie Here's what ps shows: root 23277 0.0 0.0 1784 592 ?S03:31 0:03 gzip -9 Whatever is feeding the standard input of that process has not terminated. What does ps fax tell you? Do we need to modify flexbackup to set SIG_IGN for SIGCHLD? I don't know why you are suggesting that. Anybody home? Lights are on. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] gzip not reaped.
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote: =Whatever is feeding the standard input of that process has not terminated. =What does ps fax tell you? = = Do we need to modify flexbackup to set SIG_IGN for SIGCHLD? = =I don't know why you are suggesting that. Right. It's not a zombie like I said above, but since it's not, you're correct that the issue of SIG_IGN for SIGCHLD would be a red herring. From the ps output above, it's in a sleep state. Your question about who the parent is is good. I don't remember because I just killed the process after I sent this message but I believe (from previous incidents) it is the child of flexbackup. So the tree should be cron \_bash \_flexbackup \_gzip No, the tree should never be just that. Something should be feeding gzip, and gzip should be feeding something. Both somethings should be children of flexbackup. The exact identity of the somethings will depend on your configuration. What I think is happening is that flexbackup is waiting for gzip to complete before it exits. But gzip doesn't exit because it's waiting for more input, not knowing that more isn't coming. Yes, and you need to determine why no more input is coming, and yet the program providing such input to gzip has not exited. Sometimes I can go a month without a hangup, and sometimes it hangs multiple times per week. Do we need to wait for a reoccurance or is this enough to be able to work with? It's not enough because you haven't given us the full information. Since you've killed the gzip process, we can't determine what was feeding it input and why it was blocked. If you can show the actual process tree rather than what you think should be there, then we can provide more debugging instructions. Perhaps if you describe your configuration someone can speculate about what process was blocked and why. -- Charlie - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
