Re: [cobalt-users] backing up Samba shares with Raqbackup?

[Glenn Parsons <gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:03 PM 11/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:


> Jim Dory wrote:
>
> > Anyone doing this? I've got some users set up under /home, using a 
> > sort-of Primary Domain Controller config for samba and entering the users 
> > with smbpasswd -a user.  Everyone can access their files off the rack 
> > fine, and I've also got some home directories setup for various groups. 
> > All that works. And raqbackup works to backup up the cmu stuff, but 
> > doesn't blink towards the tardirs that I added on the rackbackup webpage 
> > as per instructions. So rackbackup seems to work fine for cmu, but 
> > nothing else. I've also left in that default directory /etc/named for a 
> > tardirs but it isn't backed up either, and has nothing to do with my 
> > Samba configuration. I don't think.
> >
> > I'm missing something very basic here, I just know it. Looked at using 
> > backupPC for the other directories but got lost in the documentation. 
> > Maybe try flexbackup next or something. Hoping someone can spot my error. 
> > Should I post the script?
>
> Ok, I played around some more and reduced the number of directories I was 
> trying to backup (about 10 or so to about 4) and then executed the script 
> and it started to tar those directories, but failed. Here's the error:
>
> "
>
> *************************************************************************
> 04:11:25 > Deleting old logfiles... ok
> 04:11:25 > Deleting last backup... ok
> 04:11:29 > Deleting cmu.log to have a fresh one... ok
> 04:11:29 > Starting cmuExport... ok
> 04:11:33 > Finished! We exported 1 vsites, 2 users, 0 lists
> 04:11:33 > Starting to tar xml-files... ok
> 04:11:33 > Deleting xml-files... ok
> 04:11:33 > FYI: No mysqldump configured.
> 04:11:33 > Starting to tar additional dir(s)... 
> ********************************* ERROR *********************************
>
> gzip: stdout: File too large
> *************************************************************************
> 05:06:41 > Size of backup (MB): 2057    /home/raqbackup/data
> ********************************* ERROR *********************************
>
> "
>
> So I think I know what to search on. I'll keep trying.. any hints welcome 
> but I suppose this isn't really a cobalt issue?
>
> cheers, Jd.
Hi Jd,

An educated guess says your tar.gz from the raqbackup got too large either 
for the filesystem or for tar? Is there a 2048 MB limit to tar on the any 
of the RaQ OSs?

Some one speculate or pipe in with facts!

Cheers