On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 at 10:16am, Scott Ehrlich wrote > So I recently installed an Overland Arcvault 12 tape library on a server to What kind of tape drive is in there? > I was using a script containing: > > /sbin/dump -0v -z2 -f /media/usb_drive/dump0 /home > > I played with restore on that, and it tested fine. > > For the tape, I thought it would be nice to add /var/log (should have done it > before, but didn't think of it...) Is /var/log its own filesystem? dump/restore is designed to work on filesystems, not directories. IIRC (I haven't used dump/restore in a while), full dumps will work OK (with some complaining) but incrementals won't work at all. > Trying to adapt the knowledge to a tape library... > > /sbin/dump -0 -v -z2 -f /dev/nst0 /var/log > /sbin/dump -0u -v -z2 -f /dev/nst0 /home Depending on what tape drive you have and whether or not hardware compression is enabled, you may want to lose the -z. You may want to anyway to save yourself the cycles. > I have a cron job that dumps the results to /var/log/dump.log, and a review > of the log file claims all went well. Now for the restore... > > I just tried playing with different options of restore, but could not > successfully restore anything. I ensured I was in a scratch area so as to > hopefully not overwrite current files. Erm, what options did you try, and what were the results? Did you ensure the tape was positioned properly? > I'd like to keep things as simple as possible - people have suggested legato > and amanda, but for now, I would think/hope dump and restore would work. I'm a big fan and long-time user of amanda, but it's appropriateness here depends on your needs (which you haven't fully spelled out). -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF