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Title: DAR backup completed wheres my backup?
Post by: ber on May 27, 2009, 01:56:48 AM

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:
==================================
DAILY BACKUP TO WORKSTATION REPORT
==================================
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


 --------------------------------------------
 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
 --------------------------------------------
 Total number of inode considered: 72926
 --------------------------------------------
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

Title: Re: DAR backup completed wheres my backup?
Post by: kb-ohnemus on May 27, 2009, 06:48:23 AM

Did you actually mount the 80GB-drive? Backup with dar will unmount it after the backup has finished and will mount it again for the next backup. And if the drive is already mounted the backup won't start.

So do a "mount /media/80GB", look for your files, and then "umount /media/80GB".

Title: Re: DAR backup completed wheres my backup?
Post by: ber on May 27, 2009, 06:55:52 AM

bingo!- done yes, mounted the drive and then was viewable, newbie to Linux, thanks for the help.