Hi Received the following email after configuring my backup to an external USB disk- went through the SME 7.4 backup configurator via the browser- confirmed all my settings- woke up the next morning- checked the email- everythings seems to be ok.
heres the report:
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DAILY BACKUP TO WORKSTATION REPORT
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Backup started at Tue May 26 23:32:09 2009
Backup of mysql databases has been done.
Mounting backup shared directory localhost/media/80GB
Backup temp directory /media/80GB/tmp_dir/server.ber.local is mounted and is writable
Using set number 1 of 2
full backup
Backup directory server.ber.local/set1 created
Backup base file name is full-20090526
Making backup on temporary dir...
using a backup session timeout of : 28770 seconds
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72648 inode(s) saved
with 0 hard link(s) recorded
0 inode(s) changed at the moment of the backup
0 inode(s) not saved (no inode/file change)
0 inode(s) failed to save (filesystem error)
278 inode(s) ignored (excluded by filters)
0 inode(s) recorded as deleted from reference backup
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Total number of inode considered: 72926
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Rotating backups in a new set /media/80GB/server.ber.local/set1.
Moving backup files to target directory /media/80GB/server.ber.local/set1
Updating backup configuration data
Backup successfully terminated at : Wed May 27 01:51:13 2009
accessed the USB disk via the terminal and I cant find any files?
login as: root
root@192.168.0.254's password:
Last login: Wed May 27 10:28:39 2009 from 192.168.0.153
[root@server ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hda2 14 9729 78043770 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdb2 14 9729 78043770 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/md1: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md2: 79.9 GB, 79916695552 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 19510912 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-0: 78.8 GB, 78819360768 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 19243008 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1: 1040 MB, 1040187392 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 253952 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 2021 MB, 2021654528 bytes
63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3906 * 512 = 1999872 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1010 1972499 83 Linux
[root@server ~]# ls /media/80GB/
[root@server ~]# nano /etc/fstab
GNU nano 1.2.4 File: /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/main/root / ext3 usrquota,grpquota $
/dev/md1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/main/swap swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb /media/usbdisk ext3 pamconsole,noatime,sync$
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,$
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,$
/dev/sda1 /media/80GB ext3 pamconsole,exec,noauto,$
/dev/sdb1 /media/2GB vfat pamconsole,noatime,sync$
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Can anyone help?
John