Topic: IDE Rev Drive Woes

[ChrisA]

Hello, i am very new to SME Server, gotta say, I love it.

enough chit chat. now the gorey stuff.

I am testing or rather trying to get an IOMEGA REV Drive, IDE interface running on SME7 Final.

Boot messages tell me the drive is recognised as an IOMEGA RDD and its assigned itself to HDD.  if I scan the IDE bus it comes up as HDD blah blah blah.

looking in /etc/fstab I find the auto generated mount point of /media/cdrom2

I have been reading thru these forums for some time now and have come up blank.  I cannot seem to write to this device, it is getting rather frustrating.  Using this rsync command....

rsync -arbuv --delete --progress /home/ /media/cdrom2/

I get a successful and rather fast backup, but, what I find is, it actually HAS NOT writen files to the inserted cartridge but rather to the folder on the Hard Disk in /media/cdrom2.

For the life of me I cannot seem to directly access the drive, mount it, or do anything with it, Can anyone please help to keep my sanity?

[ksc133]

i thought REV drive r not supported in linux?

[bcdaus]

The fact its created the mount point doesn't mean that it has mounted the drive.

Once you mount it it will work great - although it takes a while to write data.

I am using a USB version with the Backup2 contrib to do nightly backups.

Bill.

[chrisw]

I have been using a rev drive atapi mounted in my sme server 7 final
I have been backing up to this with Darrel Mays backup2 contrib
rev drive shows up on /etc/fstab as
//dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto pamconsole, exec, noauto, $

In the backup2 contrib it is mounted as
/media/cdrom

Works well you can mount it with
mount /media/cdrom


and delete files or add them no problems with mc or winscp

Haven't tried the new DAR backup system yet as it looks as though you would have to format each disk to ext3

[dmay]

Haven't tried the new DAR backup system yet as it looks as though you would have to format each disk to ext3

You may find the dar2 panel misleading... as your assumption is incorrect. As most people will use an ext3 disk this option is presented in the panel. However local mount points are mounted based on your existing fstab entry and the panel selection is really irrelevant. I may change this in future. My goal was to promote the usage of ext3 formatting for hdd.

Please give dar2 a try and report your results.

Darrell

[chrisw]

Hi Darrell

Thanks for that .

Have tried it with the rev drive and works a treat, just set the file system to ext3 or smbfs

Have also restored one ibay with ease

Thanks very much for your work in this contrib

One question.  Does the * in the daily backup drop down mean doing a backup every day at the set time?  I'm too impatient to see if it does

Regards
Chris

[dmay]

Does the * in the daily backup drop down mean doing a backup every day at the set time?

Yes

[chrisw]

Hi Darrel

An update to dar backup it does the back up manually but won't do it if set to automatic, either on the rev drive or to the network backup

Does anyone else have this problem or know of it?

Any help on this would be appreciated

Thanks