Topic: Automatic backup

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I'm trying to get an Onstream DI-30 IDE tape drive up in SME 5.5.

From the prompt, logged in as root, I am able to make a successful backup with the following commands:

insmod ide-scsi
flexbackup -fs all

When I enter /sbin/e-smith/backup I always get the 'no tape loaded' error.

Where can I add the insmod line in order to have it loaded automatically at boot time? What can I do to avoid the 'no tape loaded' error?

I'd hate to put this in a crontab job ...

Thanks

KV

[Jon Blakely]

Have you read this How-To

http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/Onstream-DI30-HowTo.html

Jon

[Topic]

Hi Jon

Yes, I read it ... Backups still not working.

I just found the templates that create the /sbin/e-smith/backup command and am modifying them now. I'm getting closer

Thanks for the reply

KV

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I read the how-to again and I am very interested in the part where the insmod command are put into the rc.sysinit file.

I put the commands 'insmod ide-scsi' and 'inmod osst' in that file, too. However, when I reboot and type 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' my tape drive isn't found

I can now run the backup but first I have to log on as root and type in the insmod statements myself ...

Does anyone have a clue why the inmods in rc.sysinit aren't picked up? I already modified lilo.conf and did an append pointing to the tape drive IDE port, but that didn't help either ...

[Kelvin]

Hi,

When I put together the original DI-30 how-to, I was only interested in getting it to work with Taper and it did. I did eventually work it out for Flexbackup as well but another forum user beat me to an updated how-to to cover flexbackup as well (just search for it if you have not already done so).

The how-to should work (as I know many who use it to get their DI-30s working). All I can suggest is make sure you have the correct osst.o file loaded, check the insmod entries in rc.sysinit, make sure the device nodes have been created and you really should not need to append parameters to lilo for it to work.

Kelvin