Exclude list on smbclient?
Does anyone know whether it is possible to have an exclude list when backing up WinNT drives? Thanks, Mack -- ** Mack Earnhardt Optivel, Inc. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 317.507.6274 Fax:800.832.5615 Web:http://www.optivel.com **
Re: Exclude list on smbclient?
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jan 31, 2001, Mack Earnhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know whether it is possible to have an exclude list when backing up WinNT drives? Nope. All sendbackup supports right now is a single exclude file spec, in the case of Smbclient. And note that sendsize doesn't support it at all, so estimates are going to be off. Possibly significantly off. I wouldn't care if the exclude list was shared between WinNT boxes and Linux. Linux doesn't usually have a file called pagefile.sys anyway. But do you mean that smbtar doesn't support excludes at all? -Mack -- ** Mack Earnhardt Optivel, Inc. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 317.507.6274 Fax:800.832.5615 Web:http://www.optivel.com **
Re: Restore without amanda...
Ben Hyatt wrote: How can I restore files without Amanda? Thanks for your time. use dd along with ufsrestore. There's good online docs on this. http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-24.html I've had a problem using dd with skip=1, though. For some reason, dd on my system (Debian 2.2) doesn't skip the first block as it should when reading directly from the tape. I used cp to copy the dump to a scratch file and then used dd w/skip=1 and it works. You might try using dd once to read from the tape, and pass the output to 'strings' or to a file and use 'strings file' to check it. If you get a readable amanda header, then you have the same problem I have. One of these days I'll try to track it down. -Mack -Ben Regards, SMalla -- ** Mack Earnhardt Optivel, Inc. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 317.507.6274 Fax:800.832.5615 Web:http://www.optivel.com **
Re: Can't read Travan dump tape
John R. Jackson wrote: amrestore: short file header block: 26624 bytes What do you get if you do this: mt -f /dev/tape rewind dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k count=1 /tmp/f0.b0 ls -l /tmp/f0.b0 strings /tmp/f0.b0 #mt rewind #dd if=/dev/tape bs=32k count=1 /tmp/f0.b0 0+1 records in 0+1 records out #ll /tmp/f0.b0 -rw-r--r--1rootroot26624 Jan 25 09:04 /tmp/f0.b0 #strings /tmp/f0.b0 AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE 20010123 TAPE Optivel-01 amrestore: WARNING: not at start of tape, file numbers will be offset Had you positioned this tape with an fsf or something else before running amrecover? Had you rewound the tape? Amrecover does not do so (or anything else), so if it was at the end (or someplace in the middle), bad things will happen. It gives exactly the same messages (including amidxtaped.debug) whether amrecover is preceeded by 'mt rewind' or 'mt fsf'. Seems to make no difference. Many people have said amrecover doesn't rewind, but the tape drive sure sounds like it does. Mack John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Mack Earnhardt Optivel, Inc. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 317.507.6274 Fax:800.832.5615 Web:http://www.optivel.com **
Re: Can't read Travan dump tape
I was uncertain at first, but I think it's ok. Here's the setup: mknod /dev/ht0 c 37 0 mknod /dev/nht0 c 37 128 ln -s /dev/nht0 /dev/tape (since /dev/tape is default for mt) One of my first attempts at this amdump wrote 11 filesystems to tape. I checked through several that I could use 'mt fsf' and cp or dd to read them back and that the headers indicated the filesystem name in the first block actually changed. In all cases the tape stayed put after the read until I told it to do something else. When amrecover sounds like it's rewinding, that's the first thing it does, not the last. -Mack Gerhard den Hollander wrote: * Mack Earnhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:28:31AM -0500) Had you rewound the tape? Amrecover does not do so (or anything else), so if it was at the end (or someplace in the middle), bad things will happen. It gives exactly the same messages (including amidxtaped.debug) whether amrecover is preceeded by 'mt rewind' or 'mt fsf'. Seems to make no difference. Many people have said amrecover doesn't rewind, but the tape drive sure sounds like it does. Ehm, this may be a stupid question, but are you sure you are using the no-rewind tapedevice ? usually called /dev/ntape /dev/nrtape or somesuch. Please check your OS documentation Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Technical Support Jason Geosystems BV Fax +31-10.280.1511 (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON...#1 in Reservoir CharacterizationThe Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message. -- ** Mack Earnhardt Optivel, Inc. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 317.507.6274 Fax:800.832.5615 Web:http://www.optivel.com **
