Coaster repair help needed...

I can't copy some files off a DVD. I was attempting to copy it 
to the HD to reburn it as the verify failed....

Is there a way to do this?

I got to a certain package.afio.lzo and it can't read past
that point at least three packages beyond that point :/

I /really/ don't wanna reburn said packages as it took me
19 DVDs and 8hrs 40minutes to do.

--

-- 
"This update limits certain functionality in Outlook to provide a
higher level of security; it was not created to address a security
vulnerability within Outlook."  -Another innovative MS enhancement

-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop
FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools!
Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click

mondo backup via tape

Dear mondo developers,

I have started using mondo for our system backup. the machine is a dual xeon 
system attached to a LTO2 IBM tape drive. The mondoarchive ran fine ( 
mondoarchive -Ot -F -d /dev/st0 ). For the restoration, I put in the 
mondorescue cd and boot up the system. The system can successfuly create the 
filesystem for me and start to restore fileset but a lot of files seems to 
have the problem "21.afio.bzip corrupted on tape".   Do u think it is 
related to buffer size of the tape drive. I can see that the system has set 
8M buffer size for the tape drive. Is this the problem? The tape drive and 
the tape is new and I don't think it is the tape or tape drive problem. Is 
there a way to configure the tape device before we start restoring?
Please help. thank you so much :)

Simon.

_________________________________________________________________
All only $4! Get the latest mobile tones, images and logos:   
http://fun.mobiledownloads.com.au/191191/index.wl

-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop
FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools!
Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click

Re: Re: Re: Off hand I would say that I have a coaster, help needed.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:08:15AM -0500 or thereabouts, Brad Sims wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:35:23 +0000, Conor Daly <c.daly <at> met.ie> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 12:42:10PM -0500 or thereabouts, Brad Sims wrote:
>  
> > Not.  Mondo mounts the DVDs for the compare and copies nothing to disk.  You
> > can watch this by doing <ALT><F3> followed by repeated 'df -h' to watch disk
> > space.
>  
> > > Also I didn't use mondo's growisofs I called growisofs via the after
> > > command...
>  
> > Sorry, wasn't clear there.  Use the original growisofs command that mondo
> > used to make the DVD again.
> 
> So what I need to do is 'dd if=/dev/dvd of=/home/bsims/mondo_11.iso' and
> then burn said iso. Correct? 

That will simply _copy_ the existing DVD.  The question of whether mondo
will be able to read the copy remains to be answered.  The other option is
to do something like:

mount DVD
cp -a /mount/point/of/DVD /some/random/dir

now use the command that mondo used to create a new DVD from that directory.
This will give you a newly mastered DVD which may behave differently from
the copy made using dd.

Note: I haven't tested any of this, YMMV

Re: Possible to automate cd restore without format?

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:29:23PM +0200 or thereabouts, Leon Potgieter wrote:
> 
>    Does    anyone    know    if    its    possible    to    automate    a
>    restore/update/overwrite  of  a Redhat system from bootable CD without
>    formatting the file systems?
>
>    I  have  a  requirement to update identical systems periodically while
>    leaving  certain files  intact.  The only way I know how to do this is
>    to  backup  the  system excluding the files that shouldn't be touched,

There are probably better ways to do this but I can't think of them just
now...

Are all of these machines on a network?  rsync with the
'--exclude-from=FILE' switch is the way to go there.  If you have root on
the remote machines, you can set up an automatic remote rollout which won't
require downtime on the machines.  If you don't have root, you can have the
users run a suitable script (probably with ssh keypairs) to pull the rsync
from your master.  If the changes are small enough the rsync could even be
done over the internet.  There's no downtime involved for machines or users
this way.

>    and   then   do   an   interactive   restore   whilst   avoiding   the
>    formatting.  With  the  interactive  restore however its possible that
>    the  people  doing the restore could make the wrong choices and format
>    the  filesystems.   Would  be ideal if one could boot from the CD, and
>    perform   the   interactive   restore  (without  format)  without  the
>    prompting. Does anyone know if this can be done and how?

Have a look at /etc/mindi/deplist.txt

Re: Using fat directory

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:55:25AM -0400 or thereabouts, Allan wrote:
> Is there any way to make mondo work when the only sufficient drive space I 
> have is on a fat partition.  Mondo appears to have died because it couldn't 
> write a symbolic link.

Loopmount a file..

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/mount/point/of/fat23/mondoscratch.img bs=1024K count=1024
  mke2fs /mount/point/of/fat32/mondoscratch.img
  mount -o loop /mount/point/of/fat32/mondoscratch.img /mnt/mondoscratch
  mondoarchive $YOUR_NORMAL_SWITCHES_HERE -S /mnt/mondoscratch -T /mnt/mondoscratch
  umount /mnt/mondoscratch
  rm /mount/point/of/fat32/mondoscratch.img

I'm not sure but I think the *NIX filesystem is needed only for mondo's
tmpdir and not for the scratchdir in which case you don't need such a big
image file (the one above is 1Gb).  Can anyone confirm that?  How much *NIX
space is needed for this?

Conor
--

-- 
Conor Daly,                   Please avoid sending me 
Met Eireann, Glasnevin Hill,  Word or PowerPoint attachments.
Dublin 9, Ireland             http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Ph +3531 8064276 Fax +3531 8064247

**********************************************************************
This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential 
and intended solely for the addressee. If you have received
this email in error please notify the sender.

Re: Coaster repair help needed...

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:43:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Brad Sims wrote:
> 
> I got to a certain package.afio.lzo and it can't read past
> that point at least three packages beyond that point :/

If there are few enough packages that you can't read, you might try
recreating the afioballs manually and then remake the DVD.  I can't see the
actual afio command in the log (maybe run a mondoarchive and use ps -ww to
grab an afio commandline.  It should be something like:

afio -switches-for-lzop-and-output-file -w
filelist-in-archives-dir-matching-afio-package

Can anyone cite the actual afio command used?  They used to appear in the
log but seem not to now.  Can we have them back?

Once you have recreated the afioballs, remake the DVD using whatever
growisofs command was used.  There is a risk (depending on what files are in
the afioballs) that the DVD could end up too big to burn in which case,
you'll have to consider repeating the backup or storing one of the files
elsewhere.

> I /really/ don't wanna reburn said packages as it took me
> 19 DVDs and 8hrs 40minutes to do.

Next time, use the -V switch to verify as you backup.  It'll take you 14hrs
instead but you'll get to reburn an ISO if it's bad before deleting it...

Conor
--

-- 

Re: Coaster repair help needed...

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:31:50 +0000, Conor Daly <c.daly <at> met.ie> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:43:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Brad Sims wrote:

> Next time, use the -V switch to verify as you backup.  It'll take you 14hrs
> instead but you'll get to reburn an ISO if it's bad before deleting it...

Hrm will that work with the -A parameter?  IE if I do
 'mondoarchive -OVi -I /stuff/to/backup -A "growisofs -dvd-compat
 -Z /dev/dvd=_ISO_ ; rm -f _ISO_ ; eject /dev/sr0" ' will it verify
the burn/allow
me to reburn it before deleteing said iso?

-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop
FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools!
Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click

Re: Coaster repair help needed...

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:31:52AM -0500 or thereabouts, Brad Sims wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:31:50 +0000, Conor Daly <c.daly <at> met.ie> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:43:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Brad Sims wrote:
> 
> > Next time, use the -V switch to verify as you backup.  It'll take you 14hrs
> > instead but you'll get to reburn an ISO if it's bad before deleting it...
> 
> Hrm will that work with the -A parameter?  IE if I do
>  'mondoarchive -OVi -I /stuff/to/backup -A "growisofs -dvd-compat
>  -Z /dev/dvd=_ISO_ ; rm -f _ISO_ ; eject /dev/sr0" ' will it verify
> the burn/allow
> me to reburn it before deleteing said iso?

Dunno.  However, mondo mounts the created CD rather than the ISO for
verification and reruns the mkisofs command for a retry so I suspect it will
mount your newly created DVD, verify that and rerun the '-A' specified
command.

NOTE: I don't know these things so they'll need to be confirmed by others...

Conor
--

-- 
Conor Daly,                   Please avoid sending me 
Met Eireann, Glasnevin Hill,  Word or PowerPoint attachments.
Dublin 9, Ireland             http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Ph +3531 8064276 Fax +3531 8064247

**********************************************************************
This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential 
and intended solely for the addressee. If you have received

RE: Compare fails: Assertion Failed

I just upgraded from mondo-1.75_cvs_20040524-rht9 &
mindi-0.95_cvs_20040524-1 to mindi-1.03_cvs_20040823-1rht9 &
mondo-2.03_cvs_20040823-1rht9 (I've been busy and it worked, he said
sheepishly.) I've had some problems I worked through, related to my atapi
tape drive setup which I'll put in another msg later, but I've run into this
problem too.

I get the same error:

ASSERTION FAILED: `cfg_file[0]!='\0'' at mondo-rstr-tools.c:1012 in
read_cfg_file_into_bkpinfo

I ignore it, Mondo recovers the config file from my tape drive, then I get
the same error again:

ASSERTION FAILED: `cfg_file[0]!='\0'' at mondo-rstr-tools.c:1012 in
read_cfg_file_into_bkpinfo

I ignore it, and Mondo continues with the compare which passes fine.

So, any ideas? I'm thinking maybe a library mismatch?

Ken Bradford
Alpha II Service, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mondo-devel-admin <at> lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:mondo-devel-admin <at> lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of SW
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 2:24 AM
> To: mondo Rescue

NFS restore and /mnt/cdrom