-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Waugh [mailto:gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com]
Sent: 24 November 2008 13:44
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Subject: [coba-e:14372] Re: Slightly OT : installing second drive for
backups
Gerald Waugh wrote; Monday, November 24, 2008 7:38 AM
Oops, mistake on mke3fs. should be mkfs.ext4, below, see correction
below
>
> Paul wrote; Sunday, November 23, 2008 5:07 PM
> >
> > I have a friend who has just set up a BQ box, using sata Raid
> > for the drives which works great. He has added a separate
> > drive specifically for backups
> > (sdb) which has been formatted as EXT3 i believe.
> >
> > Me not being a linux guru was wondering if anyone could
> > advise as to how to config/mount this drive so it's seen as a
> > system drive, and also how to config raqbackup to use this
> > internal drive (i tend to use the neuhaus configurator to
> > produce the configs, as it's much easier and in English!)
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for any advice!
>
> Install the drive in the system
> Boot up System and partition the new drive:
> fdisk /dev/sdb
> Then
**** mke3fs /dev/sdb1 (for each partition n)
should be; mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
> Decide where you will be mounting it and create a mount point.
> For example, if you will mount it as /mnt/backup, as root,
> cd /mnt
> mkdir backup
> chmod 777 backup (makes the new drive accessible to
> ordinary users) As root, mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup
> cd /mnt/backup
> echo "test" > test (testing the drive)
> cat test (you should see test as output)
> rm test (remove the file test)
> If all the above worked all is OK
> Add the following line to /etc/fstab:
> /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup ext3 defaults 1 1
>
> The spare drive is mounted, and should mount again on reboot.
>
> Gerald
>
Gerald,
Many thanks - worked perfectly!!
However having issues now with Raqbackup.
Using the settings on the newhaus site i get this:
CHA="perl -pi -e"; DAT="raqbackup.sh"
cd /etc/cron.daily
wget http://www.neuhaus-internet.de/scripts/raqbackup32f.sh -O $DAT
chmod 700 $DAT
$CHA 's#MYSQLTAR="1"#MYSQLTAR="0"#' $DAT
$CHA 's#CMUTAR="1"#CMUTAR="0"#' $DAT
$CHA 's#DELBACKUP="1"#DELBACKUP="0"#' $DAT
$CHA 's#TARGET="targethost.machine.com"#TARGET=""#' $DAT
$CHA 's#TARGETUSER="backup"#TARGETUSER=""#' $DAT
$CHA 's#TARGETPASS="passwordftp"#TARGETPASS=""#' $DAT
$CHA 's#TARGETDIR=""#TARGETDIR="/mnt/backup"#' $DAT
$CHA 's#MAILTO="somebody\ (at mark) somewhere.xyz"#MAILTO="wibble\ (at mark) wobble.com"#' $DAT
$CHA 's#DETAILWHEN="0"#DETAILWHEN="always"#' $DAT
./raqbackup.sh check
However this doesn't seem to pass the backup to the target dir. I can only
presume that it ignored the TARGETDIR as it was set not to FTP, as i wanted
it to stay local....
I would guess it's a switch to store locally thats missing?....
Thanks again
Paul