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Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:45:16 -0600
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:14391] Re: Slightly OT : installing second drive for backups
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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Paul wrote; Monday, November 24, 2008 4:52 PM

> 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

Check the raqbackup.sh script.
Look for these lines;
 SOURCE="automatic"
 CHECKUPDATE="1"
 DELBACKUP="0"    
 MAILSPOOLFIX="0"

Make sure DELBACKUP="0"

Gerald