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On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:44:43PM +0000, 4625 spoke thusly: > On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Philip Guenther wrote: > >>> Is it correct string for /etc/fstab? "/dev/wd2d /altroot ffs xx 0 0" >> >> Assuming /dev/wd2d is the correct partition, yes. (You're looking at >> the daily(8) manpage, right?) > > Sure. Original mount string for '/altroot' there was '/dev/wd2d /altroot > ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2'. > >>> Should "df" display the "/altroot"? >> >> Only if you mount it yourself. It is not normally mounted and >> therefore does not appear in 'df' output. (No point in displaying it, >> what with it being a duplicate of the root filesystem) > > Ok. Thanks. > > I do not see any messages about backup. How do I check if backup really > happen? > > -- > 4625 > It's in daily output mailed to root's account. You got to have access to root's mail. I've got myself in the wheel group and have root's email sent to me instead. Here's some pertinent stuff in root's crontab: ROOTBACKUP=1 # backup / to /altroot MAILTO="dennyboy" # forward root's mail to me In /etc/mail/aliases, my name is added next to root: root: dennyboy In daily output to root, the section of the message pertaining to the backup should look something similar to this: Backing up root filesystem: copying /dev/rwd0a to /dev/rwd1a 131098+1 records in 131098+1 records out 1073955328 bytes transferred in 51.680 secs (20780520 bytes/sec) Naturally the 2nd line is dependent on your disk setup, fstab & so forth as previously discussed in this thread. Denny White - -- =============================================================== () ASCII ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments =============================================================== GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A =============================================================== iEYEARECAAYFAkqIh3AACgkQy0Ty5RZE55rNAACgn6nB3rWPk5A9Pdl6c3wloMHh 4iMAn26SIqS+5lFH3d3VrBFlDYAxSXQk =HLK7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
