try with: $erase_rewind_only = 'true';

ciao, Pierluigi

Dear flexbackup user’s



I try to user flexbackup since 3 weeks, and for the moment the result arent so good.

My problem is the next one.

When I made new index with –newtape, it takes more than half an hour to make it.

My tape is 4 Go storage (so quietly small) and my flexbackup.conf is the next one.

And another is anyboy can help me to define exactly what the bocksize is and how to configure it .

Thanks for all





# -*-Mode: perl-*-

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Flexbackup configuration file

#   check "flexbackup -help" for usage information

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# General configuration section



# Archive type?  afio, dump, tar, cpio, star, pax, zip, lha, ar, shar

# 'copy' or 'rsync' are extra options if running in archive-to-disk mode.

# 'filelist' dumps a list of files in your cwd - for debugging setup/exclusion

$type = 'afio';



# Configure backup "sets".

# Not needed if you use "-dir <dir>" to backup one tree at a time.

# Each set is a simple space-separated list of filesystems

# Remote filesystems should denoted as 'host:dir'

# You can use anything (other than 'all') as set names

#

# Example:

#  $set{'set1'} = "/home /usr";

#  $set{'set2'} = "/dir3 machine2:/dir4 machine3:/dir5";

#

# "-set all" will back up all defined sets. If you are doing a full backup

# using tapes, each "set" will go onto a different tape and you will be

# prompted for tape change in between.

#

$set{'backup'} = "/home";



# Subtree pruning

# A space-separated list of directories to prune from each backup.

# Key is a filesystem or host:dir spec as outlined above

# regular expressions allowed (not shell-type wildcards!)

$prune{'/'} = "tmp proc";



# Compression

$compress = 'gzip'; # one of false/gzip/bzip2/lzop/zip/compress/hardware

$compr_level = '4'; # compression level (1-9) (for gzip/bzip2/lzop/zip)



# Buffering program - to help streaming

$buffer = 'buffer';         # one of false/buffer/mbuffer

$buffer_megs = '10';        # buffer memory size (in megabytes)

$buffer_fill_pct = '75';    # start writing when buffer this percent full

$buffer_pause_usec = '100'; # pause after write (tape devices only)



# Device to backup to.  -->> non-rewinding version, please! <<--

#

# Examples:

#    Linux SCSI: /dev/nst0     Linux IDE: /dev/nht0

# Linux ftape: /dev/nqft0 FreeBSD SCSI: /dev/nrsa0 (4.x compat device node)

#                              FreeBSD SCSI: /dev/nsa0  (5.x)

#

# If a directory, will archive to files in that directory rather than a device

# If "host:/dev/tapedevice", will use remote tape drive via rsh/ssh

#

$device = '/dev/st0';



# Block size (in kilobytes!) to use for archive programs and dd. Default is

# 10 for most things.  Some tape drives need 32 or 64.  Set to '0' to

# disable all blocking

#$blksize = '0.5';

$blksize = '10';

#$blksize = '64';

#$blksize = '32';

#$blksize = '512';

#$blksize = '';



# Block size (in bytes!) to use for the tape device, with "mt setblk" or

# equivalent. If set to 0, will use "variable" block size for the tape

# device (which is recommended). Comment out or set to "$blksize * 1024" to

# have it be the same as the archiver block size above.

$mt_blksize = "10240";



# Padding.  True to pad blocks to blocksize

# (devices only, not used when archiving to files)

$pad_blocks = 'true';



# Other global flags

$remoteshell = 'ssh'; # command for remote shell (rsh/ssh/ssh2)

$remoteuser = '';     # if non-null, secondary username for remote shells

$label = 'true';      # somehow store identifying label in archive?

$verbose = 'true';    # echo each file?

$sparse = 'true';     # handle sparse files?

$indexes = 'true';    # false to turn off all table-of-contents support



# If backing up to files, use static filenames - no date stamp

# (same level backup of same directory will overwrite old backups)

$staticfiles = 'false';



# True to try and preserve file access times during backup, if the selected

# archive program can do so. Note that if this is true, -cnewer checks (file

# permission/status changes only, not content) are turned off when deciding

# which files to archive on the local system.

$atime_preserve = 'false';



# Span across filesytems? ("dump" will ignore this option)

# Set to "false" (don't) , "local" (all but nfs/smbfs), or "all" (everything)

$traverse_fs = 'false';



# Exclude files that match these *regular expressions* (not shell wildcards)

# from the backups (no affect on 'dump' archives). You can list more than one,

# just keep incrementing the index in the brackets for each. Also, strip off

# leading directories (the filesystem specs above or the "-dir" flag).

# Matches paths, not filenames, so put .* on the front/back as needed.

# Comment these out to exclude nothing.

$exclude_expr[0] = '.*/[Cc]ache/.*';

$exclude_expr[1] = '.*~$';



# If true (default), and using a tape device, level zero "set" backups

# assume you want to erase and use a new tape for each set. If false, level

# zero "set" backups append to tapes.  To force an erase for any backup,

# use "-erase" on the commandline.

$erase_tape_set_level_zero = 'true';



# Set this to "true" to make erase operations just call "mt rewind" - not

# "mt rewind' followed by "mt erase".  (For some tape drives, erase takes

# hours rather than seconds or is otherwise undesirable)

$erase_rewind_only = 'false';



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Log/stamp files, path for temporary files



$logdir = '/var/log/flexbackup';   # directory for log files

$comp_log = 'gzip'; # compress log? false/gzip/bzip2/lzop/compress/zip

$staticlogs = 'false';             # static log filenames w/ no date stamp

$prefix = '';                      # log files will start with this prefix

$tmpdir = '/tmp';                  # used for temporary refdate files, etc

$stampdir = '/var/lib/flexbackup'; # directory for backup timestamps

$index = '/var/lib/flexbackup/index'; # DB filename for tape indexes

$keyfile = '00-index-key'; # filename for keyfile if archiving to dir

$sprefix = ''; # stamp files will start with this prefix



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Parameters for 'afio' only



# File extensions that should not be compressed (seperate with spaces)

$afio_nocompress_types = 'mp3 MP3 Z z gz gif zip ZIP lha jpeg jpg JPG taz tgz deb rpm bz2 lzo';



# True to show block numbers

$afio_echo_block = 'false';



# Files less than this size (kilobytes) won't be compressed

$afio_compress_threshold = '3';



# Maximum amount of memory (megabytes) to use for temporary storage of

# compression results. If a compressed file is bigger than this, compression

# will have to run twice on the file (see manpage).

$afio_compress_cache_size = '2';



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Parameters for 'tar' only



# True to show record numbers

$tar_echo_record_num = 'false';



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Parameters for 'cpio' only



# Format of cpio archive

$cpio_format = 'newc';



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Parameters for 'dump' only



# Estimated tape size (in kilobytes). This number doesn't really do much

# but help 'dump' get size estimates if set to zero uses 'dump -a'

$dump_length = '0';



# True to use /etc/dumpdates (could mess things up if you dump subdirectories

# of mount points).  False to use flexbackup's timestamps.

$dump_use_dumpdates = 'false';



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Parameters for 'star' only



# Use fifo (buffering)? (you probably want to set $buffer=false above if so)

$star_fifo = 'true';



# Handle ACLs?

$star_acl = 'true';



# Format of star archive

$star_format = 'exustar';



# True to show block numbers

$star_echo_block_num = 'false';



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Parameters for 'pax' only



# Format of pax archive

$pax_format = 'ustar';



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Parameters for 'zip' only



# File extensions that should not be compressed (seperate with spaces)

$zip_nocompress_types = 'mp3 MP3 Z z gz gif zip ZIP lha jpeg jpg JPG taz tgz deb rpm bz2 lzo';



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Parameters for 'package delta' backups



# Archive a list of all installed packages in the top level of each backup?

# Can be 'false', 'true' (save it for any backup), or

# 'rootonly' (saves list only if the filesystem is '/')

$pkgdelta_archive_list = 'rootonly';



# Archive files not "owned" by packages?

$pkgdelta_archive_unowned = 'true';



# Archive any package-owned files which have been modified?

$pkgdelta_archive_changed = 'true';



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Paths to commands. Default will look for them in $PATH. Use this if

# you want to set commands explicitly.  You can use full paths or just

# change command names.

#

# Example: If GNU tar is called "gtar" on your system:

#   $path{'tar'} = 'gtar';

#

# Or can be used to "sudo" certain commands. Examples:

#    $path{'find'} = 'sudo find';

#    $path{'dump'} = 'sudo dump';

#    $path{'afio'} = 'sudo -u nonrootuser afio';

#



# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# mt operation overrides.  Set if flexbackup doesn't know the right mt

# command(s) for your OS/device, or you want to override things.

#

# Example: use "mt status" instead of "mt tell"

#   $mt{'tell'} = 'status';





######################################################################

#

# $Id: flexbackup.conf,v 1.74 2003/09/21 22:59:58 edwinh Exp $

# $Name: v1_2_1 $

#

# Leave '1;' on the the next line - for perl 'require'

1;





Cordialement,

Erwan CHEVALIER

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