Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:53:09 +0930 From: "Thyer, Matthew" <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About HP OmniBack disk agent in FreeBSD Message-ID: <3BA82BBD.56E99417@dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109190303090.13568-100000@nic-i.leissner.se>
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Hewlett Packard OpenView OmniBack disk agent on FreeBSD]
You are trying to do a lot more than me.
I cannot browse, I have simply defined my datalist manually specifying
that I only want to backup the /export filesystem (dont choose from
the browse list but just type it in).
I will be interested to see what mods you have made to
/usr/omni/bin/.util to be able to see the list of mounted filesystems.
I dont do any browsing except when I am restoring, then I browse the
OmniBack database to choose what to restore but as far as I know, you
cannot browse the list of mounted filesystems or the files in them
when you are actually communicating with the FreeBSD box.
I may well have run "brandelf -t Linux /usr/omni/bin/*" to make vbda
work.
Compare the below with your system:
% sudo file /usr/omni/bin/*
/usr/omni/bin/#inet: setuid setgid ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped
/usr/omni/bin/cat_d: setuid setgid ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, not stripped
/usr/omni/bin/cat_e: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, not stripped
/usr/omni/bin/echo_d: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, not stripped
/usr/omni/bin/echo_e: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, not stripped
/usr/omni/bin/fsbrda: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped
/usr/omni/bin/inet: setuid setgid ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped
/usr/omni/bin/install: directory
/usr/omni/bin/obkbackup: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
/usr/omni/bin/obkrestore: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
/usr/omni/bin/omnigetmsg: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped
/usr/omni/bin/rbda: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped
/usr/omni/bin/rrda: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped
/usr/omni/bin/srun: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped
/usr/omni/bin/utilns: directory
/usr/omni/bin/vbda: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped
/usr/omni/bin/vrda: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped
Also ignore anything that gets redirected under /compat/linux as you'll
end up backing up the wrong stuff.
% ls -l /usr/compat/linux/
total 10
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 26 15:15 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Feb 7 1996 boot
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Aug 24 10:45 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Jul 26 15:15 lib
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 512 Jul 26 15:14 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Aug 24 1999 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Sep 19 14:40 proc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Jul 26 15:14 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 512 Jul 26 15:15 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 512 Jul 26 15:15 var
So you wont get all of /bin, /boot, /etc, /lib, /mnt, /opt, /sbin,
/usr or /var backed up in the normal way with OmniBack.
The solution to that problem is to set up your FreeBSD boxes as
file servers where all data is under /export. If you really really
want to backup the other filesystems, you can NFS mount them on a
Linux box and use OmniBack on that Linux box as OmniBack can be
used to backup NFS mounted filesystems. You could use on Linux
box to do all FreeBSD 'other' filesystems.
e.g. mount freebie1:/ tux:/backup/freebie1/root
mount freebie1:/var tux:/backup/freebie1/var
mount freebie2:/ tux:/backup/freebie2/root
Peter Olsson wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Sorry to disturb you. I need some help if you have the time.
>
> I had a working disk agent installed in a linux. I tarred /usr/omni
> and copied it to a freebsd. I got the freebsd imported as a client in
> our win2000 OmniBack Manager. After some hacking in /usr/omni/bin/.util
> to get a working df command I can see the mountpoints /, /usr and /var.
>
> When I try to browse down the directory tree it doesn't work. The command
> being run is "/usr/omni/bin/fsbrda -browse /usr" which doesn't seem to
> work in freebsd. After a while the result is "Cannot browse: invalid
> mountpoint". This is probably what you write about as the significant
> problem below?
>
> And when I choose for example to backup /var and I come to the
> final screen where the backup operation is made, it doesn't work
> either. vbda doesn't seem to understand freebsd.
>
> Have you had this problem and know what to do about it?
> >From your text below it seems you have been able to both browse and
> backup directory /export/home in freebsd. How did you do this?
>
> Is there anything I have to change under /usr/omni after copying it
> from the linux? (By the way, is changing .util the right thing to do?)
>
> Is there some way of setting up the mountpoints and directories statically
> for the freebsd client system in OmniBack win2000 Manager?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peter Olsson
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