Re: Problem with restore under RHEL3 (Upgrade 9)

Andreas Schumpe said on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:10:56PM +0200:

> But now I have two machines running under RHEL3 (Upgrade9). After creating
> the ISO's I tried to boot a virtual machine and it hangs when trying to
> probe  ehci-hcd (see attached yelcc1-backup Movie.avi)
> 
> Probing usb-uhci
> Probing ehci-hcd ..........................

As this driver doesn't seem to be useful in your case, you may just want
to excluding it by booting with denymods="ehci-hcd". Cf:
http://trac.mondorescue.org/browser/branches/2.2.9/mindi/README.bootparam

Bruno.
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mondo / HP Ultrium 960

Hello,

I have just installed the latest versions of mondo and mindi.
Installing went real easy, I just used the RPMs.
I now want to create an image of my CentOS 5.3 server, writing to a HP
Ultrium 960 tape drive.

But there seems to be a problem. Initially everything appears fine,
but when it actually starts with "Archiving regular files", it almost
immediately asks for "Please insert volume 2 in this series".

In the logfile, also attached, I see:

 [Main] libmondo-stream.c-≥write_file_to_stream_from_file#1718:
libmondo-stream.c, write_file_to_stream_from_file, 1718: Sigpipe
occurred recently. I'll start a
 new tape.

I already tried setting the blocksize to 32, using the mt command, but
it didn't help. Anybody knows what I'm doing wrong here? Or are there
any known issues with this tape drive?

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Re: mondo / HP Ultrium 960

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:24:29PM +0200, Remco van Rijn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just installed the latest versions of mondo and mindi.
> Installing went real easy, I just used the RPMs.
> I now want to create an image of my CentOS 5.3 server, writing to a HP
> Ultrium 960 tape drive.
> 
> But there seems to be a problem. Initially everything appears fine,
> but when it actually starts with "Archiving regular files", it almost
> immediately asks for "Please insert volume 2 in this series".
> 
> In the logfile, also attached, I see:
> 
>  [Main] libmondo-stream.c-≥write_file_to_stream_from_file#1718:
> libmondo-stream.c, write_file_to_stream_from_file, 1718: Sigpipe
> occurred recently. I'll start a
>  new tape.
> 
> I already tried setting the blocksize to 32, using the mt command, but
> it didn't help. Anybody knows what I'm doing wrong here? Or are there
> any known issues with this tape drive?

Yes, you did!  We see this in your log:
--------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 32 bytes. Density code 0x44 (no translation).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):

Re: Restore Problem

Simon Lyall said on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:54:01AM +1200:

> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> What should I put in the nfspath ? paramater?

nfspath is the path on the NFS server under /tmp/isodir that leads to your 
iso image.

> The new machine defaults to mounting the NFS under /tmp/isodir

Yes. 

> So I assume I put in nfspath=/tmp/isodir ?

No. nfspath=under-tmp-isodir/to/the/image.iso

> > Beta packages will arrive under ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/test during
> > the night hopefully. Which distro are you using ?

x86_64 packages are now there for you to test.
Bruno.
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error on screen

I noticed this error:

---evalcall---E---
---evalcall---1---        Making catalog of /home
---evalcall---2--- TASK:  [*********...........]  44% done;  0:06 to go
---evalcall---E---
sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
---evalcall---1---        Making catalog of /home
---evalcall---2--- TASK:  [***********.........]  53% done;  0:05 to go
---evalcall---E---

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Re: mondo / HP Ultrium 960

Hello,

Thank you very much for your reply, and sharing some of your past
experiences / lessons learned.

That was indeed a bit silly of me. I've just bought this tape drive,
still have to get used to it a little. It does work though, because
I've already been able to make backups using bacula and/or tar.

But I only changed this blocksize value, after the 0 setting did not
work. So I've attached two more log files now, one with blocksize 0,
and the other one with blocksize 32768. I've also pressed enter a few
times when the dialogue box came up, requesting a new volume. But as
you will see, it is the same problem repeating.

This error is obviously the cause, after which the Sigpipe is thrown:

buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output error

It might well be me, doing something stupid here, because of my
inexperience with tape drives. Fortunately though, this one doesn't
run on steam 

If this tool will work for me, I will be more than happy to donate to
your project, also because I can get direct support from the author
that way, in case of future issues. And off course also because I
really like what this tool can do.

Thanks again for your time.

Re: error on screen

Bruno,

I see you fixed this. Thanks,

Also a typo  you have Done as 0one

-progress-form---4--- TASK:  [*****************...]  83 0one;  2:00 to go
---progress-form---1--- I am backing up your live filesystem now.

JeffS wrote:
> I noticed this error:
> 
> ---evalcall---E---
> ---evalcall---1---        Making catalog of /home
> ---evalcall---2--- TASK:  [*********...........]  44% done;  0:06 to go
> ---evalcall---E---
> sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> ---evalcall---1---        Making catalog of /home
> ---evalcall---2--- TASK:  [***********.........]  53% done;  0:05 to go
> ---evalcall---E---
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

Re: error on screen

I spoke too soon. It seems to display the error only when I include my
home directory. Could it be because of these files it can't find.:

      Making catalog of /home
opendir

no such file or directory.

Look in log for examples

Jeff
opendir
/home/sofferin/.mozilla/firefox/az7gvnra.default/extensions/\{0545b830-f0aa-4d7e-8820-50a4629a56fe\}
(No such file or directory)
opendir
/home/sofferin/.mozilla/firefox/az7gvnra.default/extensions/\{D5EDC062-A372-4936-B782-BD611DD18D86\}
(No such file or directory)
opendir
/home/sofferin/.java/.userPrefs/com/yahoo/finance/screener/Yahoo\!
Finance Screener (No such file or directory)
opendir /home/sofferin/.java/.userPrefs/_\!\'8\!cg\"n\!\#4\!b <at> \"v\!\(\}=
(No such file or directory)
opendir
/home/sofferin/.thunderbird/411jufbj.default/ImapMail/imap.gmail-1.com/\[Gmail\].sbd
(No such file or directory)
opendir /home/sofferin/mydata/MyDocuments/captool/backup/prices/\( (No
such file or directory)
opendir /home/sofferin/mydata/MyDocuments/captool/backup/prices/jeff/\$
(No such file or directory)
opendir /home/sofferin/mydata/MyDocuments/captool/backup/prices/jeff/\(

Re: error on screen

Bruno,

OK it's the files in .java in my home directory mondo does not like.

JeffS wrote:
> I spoke too soon. It seems to display the error only when I include my
> home directory. Could it be because of these files it can't find.:
> 
>       Making catalog of /home
> opendir
> 
> no such file or directory.
> 
> Look in log for examples
> 
> 
> Jeff
> opendir
> /home/sofferin/.mozilla/firefox/az7gvnra.default/extensions/\{0545b830-f0aa-4d7e-8820-50a4629a56fe\}
> (No such file or directory)
> opendir
> /home/sofferin/.mozilla/firefox/az7gvnra.default/extensions/\{D5EDC062-A372-4936-B782-BD611DD18D86\}
> (No such file or directory)
> opendir
> /home/sofferin/.java/.userPrefs/com/yahoo/finance/screener/Yahoo\!
> Finance Screener (No such file or directory)
> opendir /home/sofferin/.java/.userPrefs/_\!\'8\!cg\"n\!\#4\!b <at> \"v\!\(\}=
> (No such file or directory)
> opendir
> /home/sofferin/.thunderbird/411jufbj.default/ImapMail/imap.gmail-1.com/\[Gmail\].sbd

Re: error on screen

Bruno,

Under .java/.userprefs there were directories like below:

I deleted them and mondo ran OK.

~/.java/.userPrefs/_!'8!cg"n!#4!b <at> "v!(}=> ls
_!'0!} <at> "4!&8!d <at> "z!'`!cg"f!'k!bg"0!'`!cg"m!'%!}w"l
_!'0!a <at> "u!&8!d <at> "z!'`!cg"f!'k!bg"0!'`!cg"m!'%!}w"l
_!'0!} <at> "j!()!bw"z!&8!a <at> "u!'}!bw==
cache
display
_!(%!d <at> "v!( <at> !~ <at> "f!(:!bw"1!()!}w"l
equations
_!'k!~!"f!(%!d <at> "v!( <at> !~ <at> "f!(:!e <at> "u!':=
language
license
macros
_!' <at> !~ <at> "m!'%!d <at> "s!( <at> !|w"j!'g!} <at> "y!( <at> !|w"k!'`!~g"h!(`!b!"0!(:=
portfolio
prefs
prefs.xml
proxy
watchscreens

also when backing up large files the screen display is

I am now backing up all large files.
---progress-form---2--- DVD 1: [***.................] 14134880832sed
---progress-form---3--- Please wait. This may take some time.