Backup - in detail

[Mark Musone]

Generally dump has default maximum tape lengths that it stops writing at
end of tape. One little often used trick is to manually override the
tape length (and other elements).

For example try adding a "-s 9999999"
Which will make the size larger than the default 2300 fett and will also
disable end of media detection.

This may help...

-Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Asheville Joe
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:23 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Backup - in detail

I'm trying to do a dump -M -0uf /mnt/portable/root /dev/hda7
to dump my main disk to my auxillary disk.  Dump keeps saying end of 
tape and out of space.  My auxillary disk is supposed to be 120GB - no 
way to run out of space - unless I got my 4GB removable in there by 
accident.   How do I tell?  df doesn't mention /dev/hdb1.

Joe

Asheville Joe wrote:

> Pardon me for asking this again, but I still don't get it.
> I have a dual boot system - Mandrake 9.1 rc2 and Windoze 98se.  It has

> a 30MB main disk and a secondary 120MB disk (that will eventually be 
> on a new computer).  I want to make a complete backup from my main 
> disk which would work just fine if I completely reformatted the 30MB 
> disk and started clean.  The disks look like this:
>
> [bigbird at localhost bigbird]$ cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /mnt/cdrom supermount 
> dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0
0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos_hda1 vfat 
> iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0,defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/dos_hda5 vfat 
> iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0,defaults 0 0
> none /mnt/floppy supermount 
> dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0
0 0
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/portable ext3 rw,user,noauto,exec,suid 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
> [bigbird at localhost bigbird]$
>
> Below is what I think I should do.  Please steer me right and fill in 
> the blanks.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe
>
> What I have done so far is to run mkcdrec which makes a recovery CD.  
> This boots up into command line.
> Next, I am doing tar -cvz --file /mnt/dos_hda1 /mnt/portable/cdrive
>                                tar -cvz --file /mnt/dos_hda5 
> /mnt/portable/ddrive
>                                dump -0uf /mnt/portable/root /dev/hda7
>                                dump -0uf /mnt/portable/boot /dev/hda6
>                                dump -ouf /mnt/portable/home /home
>
> What I want to do next is burn cd's for each of the file systems I 
> copied onto /mnt/portable.
> I think that will give me a good backup of everything in a form that 
> can be slapped back into place on a new drive.  I just need to know 
> how to do md5's etc. to make sure what I burned is good.
>
> For testing purposes, I have an unformatted 20GB drive.  The 30GB has 
> lots of free space and what is used should fit easily onto the 20GB 
> drive.
>
> What I would like to do is pull my 30GB drive out (and keep it safe 
> and working), put the 20GB drive in, boot from the CD made by mkcdrec.
> This is where I'm not sure what to do.  I need to partition and format

> the drive the same as the 30GB, only, obviously, a bit smaller.  I 
> don't think I will have access to Diskdrake at this level, so I'll 
> probably need to do it from the command line.  I think this goes as 
> follows:
> First partition the drive - I don't know how to do that.  Then format 
> the drive:
>
> fdisk /dev/hda
> mke2fs -j /dev/hda[79]
> mke2fs /dev/hda8
> "dosformat" /dev/hda[156] (I don't know how to do a vfat)
> then restore the dumps and untar the tars (all from cd's)
> then run lilo to build the mbr (I think you can tell lilo where to 
> write th mbr.)
>
> Then pull out the CDROM and reboot with all as before.
>
> Well, what did I miss?  Did I get this remotely right?  Does fdisk ask

> me what partitions and sizes I want?
>
>
>



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