Server :: Backup Goes To Local Disk?
Jun 7, 2011
I have an external drive that I want to do backups to. Most times it goes great, other times the server gets real sloggy, and I do a 'df' and see I'm at 96% disk usage. What has occured is the disk failed to mount apparently, so the backup backs up to my local disk at /media/backups/
I have /media/backups in my /etc/fstab pointing to /dev/sdc1, but I think the external disk will sleep when not in use for long periods.
How do I make sure /media/backups is REALLY going to the external drive and not my local drive? Is there anyway to sort of test it BEFORE I write umpteen gigs to my local hard drive?
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Jul 20, 2010
I have about 50 servers with at least 200 GB free on each host. I need close to 10 TB of continuous shared storage between almost half of the servers for a new app I building.
I was looking into buying a storage device but was wonder if I could get any use out of the free space on all the servers, grouping all of the free storage from the hosts into one reduduant storage array.
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dd if=/dev/sda bs=4096 | gzip -c > /mnt/external/image/test.img then reverse the process on the new PC, finally using Code:mdadm --assemble to re-create and re-build the array.
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Using the following command, I can access a windows 2008 server: rdesktop -u myusername -d mydomain -p - -fP -r sound:local -r disk:myhome=/home/myhome serveraddress
connection works fine, and to start with I can see my local disk "\tsclientmyhome" and navigate around + open files. If I try to delete a file or rename a folder, I get an Error 0x8007048F:The device is not connected.
After this, I can no longer access the local disk. It says: "\tsclientmyhome is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Attempt to access invalid address." As I understand it, I should be contacting myself about permissions... Can anyone tell me what I need to do on my local ubuntu machine to fix this?
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This is a good way to backup my current system:
How to backup your system to restore your server incase the hard disk is damaged.
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These dumps were to tape 000289.
*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [No more writable valid tape found].
Normally I will load the proper tapes and run the amflush to push stuff from the holding disk to tapes manually. However this time amflush in this case did not help, Amanda immediately responded with an out of tape error again.
Meanwhile I got some errors from dmesg as well
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Can this be done and to restore the disk with a similar cat command.
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I went ahead and created this directory
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and, ran this
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this is the result
rsync: link_stat "/av" failed: No such file or directory (2)
skipping directory home
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]
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rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(541) [Receiver=3.0.7]
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