Server :: Fedora Bare Metal Restore From Tape
Jul 16, 2010
I have a server with an old version of Fedora on it, Fedora 7, I know its old and that I should have upgraded it. But I haven't I plan on doing it now but I ran into a hardware failure and had to switch to a different set of hardware. I tried going into rescue mode using the fedora 7 install disc, but st0 for tape drives was not available. So I tried using the newest fedora distro, Fedora 13, installation disc and st0 is still not available on there. How to do a restore from tape?
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Mar 12, 2011
I'm running a x86-based Debian Squeeze LAMP server which is also my gateway between my home network and the big wide world (Shorewall/Shorewall6) As you can guess, when (as it did just recently) the hardware dies and needs to be replaced, the rebuild of a machine which has been tuned and tweaked over years is "interesting", to say the least. I am looking for some software which will allow me to do a bare-metal restore of the software and setups (data is accommodated already, so that part can be ignored) I'd like to use something to create a boot disc (CD/DVD) that I can put in a new machine and get my original setup installed on the new tin automatically.
I looked at Mondo, it looks ideal, but Google hints at problems with GRUB, and incompatibilities with Debian Squeeze....so the questions are:
1) Has anyone run Mondo on Debian Squeeze successfully?
2) Is there a good howto for Mondo on Debian?
3) Is there an alternative that runs on Debian and that fits my requirements?
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Apr 8, 2010
I have two identical servers, one has RHEL 5 and Zimbra installed and the other is currently not really doing anything. Both have hardware RAID (Adaptec) set to RAID10, identical hard drives, etc. The RHEL/Zimbra machine is set up with LVM2. Is it possible for me to hook them up on the secondary NICs and boot the second machine with Knoppix or something else, and easily tell it to duplicate the first machine onto the second, down to the last bit, or do I need to make all the partitions beforehand and dd each one separately?
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Dec 26, 2009
One of my desires is to set up my main workstation as a bare metal hypervisor because:
- Legacy issues mean I can't migrate to Linux in one step.
- The flexibility offered by virtualization is appealing.
Are there any resources out there that explain how to set up and manage fedora as a hypervisor and guests within that environment? I expect that I'll need to install a number of packages and to rebuild the kernel but I'm not aware of enough details to get started.
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Jul 22, 2011
I would like to try putting some kind of free "bare metal" visualization for desktop useage on my laptop. I've been googling about the possibilities, but still I'm not sure which would actually work in my case. I've seen VMWare ESXi which looks ok, but unfortunatelly it is meant for servers and I can't have ESXI and Sphere client on same laptop. Another candidate I found is KVM, but as much I've seen it requires VTx VTd support from hardware, which my laptop can't provide. The same requirements must be met for Citrix Xen Client, which is meant for desktop virtualizations, but because of lack of VTx and VTd, can't be used in my case. Is there any other possibility? Currently I'm using VirtualBox and VMWare player for virtualization purposes, but I would like to pull out more performance out of it, and a heavy OS on top of another heavy OS just isn't the best way.
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Aug 27, 2010
Can I install VMware ESXi on my Dell Inspiron laptop having core i3 processor which has got 4GB of RAM? I can allocate 100GB of hard disk space for that. This is just to practice and explore the features available. Can I install Vmware ESXi iso on KVM hypervisor like installing guest OS?
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May 28, 2009
I am trying to figure out how to get an almost bare metal virtualization running, and having a hard time getting it going I tryied the Virtual Machine manager, but it wont let me do full virtualization.
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Feb 13, 2010
So far I have tried PING, rsync, Clonezilla and tar. All have one or another problem. I'm sure that this is in part to my own ignorance and partly due to running the 64 bit version of Karmic, but I cannot seem to find anyone who has real answers.
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Mar 3, 2011
I'm looking for a way to do a bare metal backup of our server using a tool such as ghost or clonezilla. The limitation is that / is on an mdadm raid 5. The only relevant info I could find on clonezilla's site was:
# Software RAID/fake RAID is not supported by default. It's can be done manually only.
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Aug 14, 2010
I have worked on Xen which is being shipped with RHEL 5.4, Is it possible to install Xen hypervisor directly on bare metal, so that we can save resources. I searched in Xen Official site, but could not recognize the product that can be directly installed on bare metal like VMware ESX.
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Aug 17, 2010
Are there any open source or third party applictions can could do a bare metal recovery on Debian or any linux machines? We are looking for a solution that won't need a shutdown or reboot.
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May 25, 2010
I've got a Tape drive attached to my server connected by SAS card, and am trying to copy some data across.but it fails to write, in dmesg i seescsi 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 1mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31120403): Originator={PL}, Code={Abort}, SubCode(0x0403) does this mean faulty hardware/cables?
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Apr 3, 2016
I have been using an LTO-5 Ultrium-3000 tape drive connected to an ATTO HBA without problem. I can control the tape drive using "mt -f /dev/nst0" and have been able to make successful backups using cpio, tar, and dump/restore. I followed some instructions on the web about how to install the HPE Library and Tape Tools application (version 4.21) which relies on conversion of a rpm to a deb file. The software seems to have been installed correctly and runs. However the hardware scan function does not recognize my tape drive. The following is suggested in the user manual if the tape device is not recognized by the software under Linux:
1. Login as root.
2. Edit the following file:
vi /etc/modules.conf
3. Add the following line as appropriate:
add options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=128
4. Reboot the computer.
The problem is I don't have an /etc/modules.conf and am not sure exactly which file would be equivalent? If this is even the correct solution.
My tape drive is controllable and functions well using "mt -f /dev/nst0 status" so it seems to be a matter of LT&T software to detect the tape drive.
At the risk of providing too much info here some, possibly relevant, output from lshw
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: b5
[Code] .....
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Apr 26, 2010
I want to know how to retrival partial files from a lto 4 tape instead of retrieving the complete tape.
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Mar 8, 2010
I am looking at getting a DLT drive for my network; however, I have never used the tar command with a tape drive. What happens if the data is larger then 1 tape? Does the tar application automatically span tapes or do I need to use switches so it spans multipule tapes? Right now my Full backup will take 2 or 3 tapes.
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Dec 8, 2008
I have dell poweredge 830 server with tape drive and RHEL 4 running on it....the issue i am facing is,i am unable to insert the tape as i had ejected the tape forcefully from it....
i tried to do a listing of the contents backedup on tape and it got struck in middle throwing below error,
/dev/st0:device input/output error. after which i was unable to eject the tape using
mt -f /dev/st0 rewoffl
i removed the tape by holding the eject button and now when i try to insert another tape, it's unable to take the tape in to tape drive...
I've tried doing all except reeboting the server, can any one help me out in this issue, hope the blow information may help in debugging the issue... code....
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Jan 27, 2010
what could this bei saved my correct iptables file @ Code: /etc/iptables.up.ruleswhere webmin is looking for it.webmin config is to automaticly boot this file and addes a line at.
Code:
/etc/network/interfaces
file
[code]...
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Aug 20, 2010
I am in the process of creating a kickstart configuration file for some RedHat 5.5 and Centos 5.5 servers (Production and test respectively).I have googled about a bit but I cannot find a good list of the bare minimum packages required for a command-line system.If anyone knows how I can trim this list down anymore it would be much appreciated. The aim of this kickstart.cfg is to get the system booted to a bare minimum required to install Chef (Server management software). Chef will then setup Apache, Ruby on rails environment etc.
All this server will need to do is, from a static IP, Host a Ruby on rails app, send emails, send data to a server on the web, accept ssh and occasionally and connect to a SMB/CIFS share This list was taken from the anaconda-ks.cfg file after a RedHat install of what I thought was a pretty minimal system onto a VM but I noticed that cups, the avahi daemonsand gam_server are installed and running which I do not believe are needed for a pure web server.I know that these types of questions are hard to answer without a complete knowledge of the operating environment and what "minimum" is in this case ("@core only? but I wanted yum damnit!")
@admin-tools
@base
@core
[code]....
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Jun 22, 2011
I'd like to change the progress bare on FC15 Gnome 3. Is there a way to do so?
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May 17, 2011
We have RHEL4 loaded on the server and our tape drive is not working.While taking the backup on the tape using the command tar cvf /dev/nst0 * the system is creating a tar file by the name of nst0 in /dev directory and no backup is being taken on the tape .Please provide solution.
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Jun 24, 2011
iam trying to access tape drive .but iam not able to see its location.is any command to install and access tape drive
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Oct 8, 2010
i have centos 5.9 running on my server and i have to take backup of my entire data from the different server.This one I want to make it as backup server. I need few informations about the tap drive
1.Which tape drive is good also compatible with Linux (centos ), pls send me the link
2.How to take backup into tape drive , good if you send any doc.
3. Any backup software which is kind of opensource
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Jun 13, 2011
I need backup files to a tape drive on a remote server without being prompted for password.
I got the part working to tar files to the remote tape drive like this:
Code:
currently I got rsync to work with out being prompted for password like this:
Code:
How can I get the above tar command to work like the rsync command so it does not prompt me for a password.
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Feb 9, 2010
we have a server that runs a backup (cron job) at 9:15 every night. When I log on in the morning I have mail message that gives me a long list of all the files that were backed up the night before. For a couple of weeks now, the mail message gives me an empty list. Yet, when I run the same job manually from a #prompt, it runs. I am not able to run this job with cron in the daytime because too many users are in it. I wanted to browse the tape to see if the backup is really failing to copy the files or if they are on the tape and the mail message is bogus.
Since the backkup was done with cpio instead of tar, I'm not sure if I can browse the tape with restore -i anyway.What would be the best way to browse the tape on /dev/rmt/1 without actually restoring anything ?This is an ancient DGUX system, not Linux, and I'm not a unix expert I just inherited this server recently, but a lot of things are very similar to Linux and it looked like this might be a good place to ask.
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May 26, 2011
We have been using an Ultrium LTO-2 tape drive to perform backups of certain information from our file server. Recently, the data that we are backing up has grown too large to fit on the tapes in their 200GB uncompressed capacity. I have been looking around for a way to enable the compression in the drive, but I haven't found much. I am not using any backup software, so I'm not sure if I'll even be able to. I write the tape using a simple 'tar' command, so there aren't a whole lot of options to be set. Is there a way that I can enable the drive's compression, or would I be better off running the tar command with the gzip or bzip flags?
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Oct 22, 2010
I didn't know if I should have posted this in newbie, hardware, or server. I haven't used tape drives in Linux previously; however I'm trying to figure out how to enable an LTO-4 tape drives built in encryption. Im not that concerned with secure key management, I am looking to just being able to load a key into the drive and get the tape to encrypt. Im for a simple command, but I dont even know where to start. If it varies by device, its an HP Ultrium 4 (1760).
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Jul 15, 2010
Does anyone know of any existing software to aid in this task? We already offer backed-up data storage to our users, but no means of say arching original data sets for long term storage(NIH, etc rules). Something that could be user initiated, where they login into the archive server, tell it I want such and such files archives, and on its own it takes those files and gives them to a tape library(drive+robot).
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Nov 21, 2010
I have my local computer, and server.
I log into server, and mount my local computer (folder) via sshfs.
Create .rar backup archive direct to sshfs remote folder.
After copy, close my ssh sessions.
And use my streamer to backup files stored by server.
I'm wondering, is there any way to share streamer /dev/st0 via ssh session ?
how can i start backup direct to (remote) -> root@server/dev/st0
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Nov 25, 2010
make storageworks tape drive work with redhat 5
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Jan 13, 2011
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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