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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Backups
Date: 5 Sep 1996 07:36:44 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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"Jeffery T. White" <zellion@wco.com> wrote:
> 1. When the system boots it says: WangDAT model 1300 is a known rogue
> density code 0x13, drive empty. What does it mean "known rogue" is this
> good, bad or ugly?
It is good. :) It means the system knows about some oddity of your
drive.
> 2. Given that all is not totally hopeless in #1 above can someone point me
> to either a FreeBSD or port program that I can use to do backups to this
> device.
dump(8). Amanda (which you can find in the ports), which is built on
top of dump, but is probably overkill for you.
Dunno what you are expecting to be automated. For example, i'm using
a QIC 2.5 GB drive, there's always a cartridge in the drive, and this
is in root's crontab:
05 04 * * * /sbin/dump 0ubB 32 1000000 /home
(The cartridge is a 1 GB part, that's why the 1000000 figure.) So
i get a backup of /home each night. I backup less important file
systems manually, with the kind :) annoying message that is generated
by /etc/daily each day, prompting me to dump some file systems...
Remember that the dump cycle is determined from the fstab:
/dev/sd0a / ufs rw 7 1
/dev/sd1a /usr ufs rw 14 2
^^
...meaning /etc/daily will remind me to backup / every week, and /usr
every two weeks.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)