Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:30:20 +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: <3BA93FA4.9C645B64@dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109192254031.13568-100000@nic-i.leissner.se>
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Thanks very much Peter,
I have applied your changes to /usr/omni/bin/.util and the
hard link of /etc/mtab to /etc/fstab and I too can now browse
my FreeBSD box for mounted filesystems and their contents.
I assume that the "brandelf -t Linux /usr/omni/bin/*" is also
required.
Peter Olsson wrote:
>
> Hello again!
>
> I noticed that if I backed up /export and then removed /export
> completely it didn't restore to /export but to /usr/compat/linux/export.
> I had to create /export to get it to restore there.
>
> This got me wondering about the /usr/compat/linux structure.
> I moved everything out of /usr/compat/linux and tried vbda.
> I had to restore lib and etc in /usr/compat/linux to get it
> running, but the rest don't seem to be needed! Which means that
> I can now for example browse my real FreeBSD /usr. I am just now
> running a complete backup of /usr to see what happens when I restore
> some of the files in it. Should work fine as long as /usr exists.
>
> I have no idea what this does to the linux support, it is probably
> not so good if you use the linux support for other things than
> omniback. I know nothing about linux, I just installed the linux
> support to get the omniback client.
>
> Peter Olsson
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Peter Olsson wrote:
>
> > Solved it :) I have been trying for over an hour now so it is
> > possible that I forgot something I changed earlier tonight, but
> > I think this is the only thing I needed to get it working:
> > cd /etc
> > ln fstab mtab
> >
> > Now backup/restore works fine, and I can even browse my FreeBSD!
> > The results of the browsing are unfortunately the contents of
> > /usr/compat/linux, not the FreeBSD contents. But everything directly
> > below / that doesn't have an equally named directory in /usr/compat/linux,
> > for example /export, is browseable with real FreeBSD content!
> >
> > Here are my diffs for .util. I use .util from the A.04.00 release.
> > It would probably be nicer to keep the use of uname for getting ARCH
> > and OS_REV and instead changing the awk arguments, but this works:
> >
> > $ diff .util .util.old
> > 16c16
> > < ARCH=FreeBSD
> > ---
> > > ARCH=`echo ${UNAME} | awk '{print $1}'`
> > 47,52d46
> > < FreeBSD)
> > < MACHINE=FreeBSD
> > < OS_REV=4.3-RELEASE
> > < SERIES=gpl/i386/freebsd
> > < STRING="gpl i386 freebsd-${OS_REV}"
> > < ;;
> > 282,284d275
> > < ;;
> > < gpl/i386/freebsd)
> > < /bin/df -t ufs 2>/dev/null | awk '$6 ~ /\/.*/ {print $6}'
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