Re: Safely remove USB drive

2023-02-23 Thread Andrew Grillet
A great bit of work. Do you know if USB DAT drives are working on Sparc64? They were not when I last tested (probably OBSD 6.2). Andrew On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 at 13:02, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 09:20:48PM -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > > There is no reason why we couldn't

Re: recommended partitions to backup with dump

2022-08-25 Thread Andrew Grillet
Remember that some that some things need to be explicitly dumped - eg databases and repositories because when you do restore, you might want to restore to an upgraded OS version. Rather than use dump, I use gtar - I have restored stuff after 30 years with gtar, to completely different OSes - eg

Re: Is it true that `dd` is almost not needed?

2021-12-12 Thread Andrew Grillet
"The era of magnetic tapes" has not ended. It is just that some people mysteriously believe their data is safer "in the cloud" where they cannot monitor it, than on a tape in a fire safe under their own supervision. I have read back tapes I wrote myself 30 years earlier. Have you tried getting

Re: Sparc64 LDOM not working past OpenBSD 6.5

2021-05-12 Thread Andrew Grillet
I have a T1000, and it runs 6.9 in primary and 7 guests. However, attempts to create and install a new ldom config result in complete loss of the device tree, and consequent inability to boot. restore to factory, and then restore the ldom config created with OBSD 6.3 will produce a working

Release schedule/general product engineering

2021-04-22 Thread Andrew Grillet
One of the key strengths of OpenBSD that it is well engineered - and consequently robust and reliable. Management of the release engineering is key to this. (Cathedral, not bizarre). However, release engineering is no longer mentioned on the home page of www.openbsd.org, and I could find no

How to unlock a serial port

2021-01-14 Thread Andrew Grillet
Hi I am running OpenBSD on a T2000 (Sparc64). I was trying to use the serial port from the primary domain, connected via ssh, and my network lost the connection. My tty00 is now locked: jay# stty -f /dev/tty00 stty: /dev/tty00: Device busy I do not want to reboot the primary, as the guests are