Hi:
I've installed amanda 2.4.1 on a Sun Ultra 30 with an Exabyte 8500
tape drive. I'm in the tryout/testing phase right now. Eventually,
we hope to run amanda on a dedicated Sun server with a heftier tape library.
O.K., my question:
I'm dumping two filesystems on my tape server, which is also acting
as my backup client during the testing phase. Here is my disklist
definition (server/client is emerald):
# emerald
#
emerald /usr/samba nocomp-high
emerald /var nocomp-high
In amanda.conf, my dumptype definition for nocomp-high looks like this:
define dumptype nocomp-high {
comp-high
index yes
comment "very important partitions on slow machines"
compress none
program "DUMP"
}
I'm assuming that the "program "DUMP"" parameter will utilize the
local dump utility, which is "ufsdump". If this is so, shouldn't
I be able to use "dd" to access tape contents, and pipe it to
"ufsrestore"? I've tried this:
dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=64k skip=1 | ufsrestore -tv
but I get this error messages:
dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn bs=64k skip=1 | ufsrestore -tv
Verify volume and initialize maps
/dev/rmt/0: Device busy
# 0+0 records in
0+0 records out
If I don't use "bs=64k" with "dd", I get the error message:
Volume is not in dump format
Also, "ufsrestore" insists on some parameters, hence the "-tv".
Is anyone else trying to use native dump on a Sun machine, and successfully
restoring using Sun's ufsrestore?
(I tested amrecover earlier and it worked fine - at that time, though,
I didn't have that "program "DUMP"" line in my dumptype definition. I'll
test amrecover again to make sure my baseline hasn't moved.)
Lisa
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Lisa M. Becktold - [EMAIL PROTECTED], (410) 293-6480
United States Naval Academy - CADIG
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