john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) (12/19/88)
Having just upgraded from Sys V/AT to V/386 I hope these questions
havn't already been beat to death. There is definately going to be a
learning curve on SVR3.
I installed the Everex Excel-stream 60 (Wangtek, QIC-02, external) using
the EV-811B controller. This is the same drive I've had running for a year
in the 286. Installation was smooth and the tape drive works. I do my
backups in two parts. First one backs up /root and /usr and the second
backs up my other disk which is /archive. I've been invoking the backup
with "find / -depth -print | cpio -ocv | strm /dev/mt/rmt0". When I
backup /archive all is well. When I backup /root however, all files appear
to get backed up except right at the end just prior to reporting the
total number of blocks and exiting, I get the message:
cpio: WARNING: Cannot obtain information about file: "".
And then it exits normally. I have re-read the tape in and it looks
like all the files are there but I can't track down where this cpio-
warning is originating from. I am going to single-user mode and killing
all extra processes (killall) before beginning tape operations.
I might add that having experience at installing V/386 compared to
Sys V/AT is a *major* improvement. The disk loading was extremely smooth.
And adding the second hard disk, tape drive, and dumb Digiport Com8 was
almost too easy!
John
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Marysville, PA 17053 | Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) (12/20/88)
In article <172@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: >backs up my other disk which is /archive. I've been invoking the backup >with "find / -depth -print | cpio -ocv | strm /dev/mt/rmt0". When I I suggest that you use cd /; find . -depth -print | cpio -ocv | strm /dev/mt/rmt0 It's much better to be able to restore files somewhere else. find . -print | sort -r | cpio ... also has some advantages if you are using floppies and want to find a file (use fixcpio to start in the middle of a floppy series). -- Jon Zeeff zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us Support ISO 8859/1 zeeff%b-tech.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI umix!b-tech!zeeff
buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) (12/20/88)
In article <172@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: > backs up my other disk which is /archive. I've been invoking the backup > with "find / -depth -print | cpio -ocv | strm /dev/mt/rmt0". When I > backup /archive all is well. When I backup /root however, all files appear > to get backed up except right at the end just prior to reporting the > total number of blocks and exiting, I get the message: > > cpio: WARNING: Cannot obtain information about file: "". I don't know what is causing this line, but try a test run with cd / ; find . -depth -print | cpio -ocv >/dev/null 2>cpio.debug and check the debug file to see where the warning message comes in. (I always use the "cd / ; find ." syntax to keep from storing absolute pathnames on the tape. This allows restoring a given file somewhere else in the filesystem without doing chroot tricks.) -- A. Lester Buck ...!uhnix1!moray!siswat!buck