Backing Up a journaled FS
Odhiambo Washington
odhiambo at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 08:29:56 UTC 2014
I hope everyone enjoyed their foods & drinks during Christmas:)
Now, being new to 10-RELEASE, things continue to amaze me, but I attribute
that to my slowness in understanding 10.
I have been used to 8.x and below so much that when changes started getting
into 9.x and into 10.x I was simply overwhelmed. Now it's biting.
I have a server I installed with two identical disks. I used BSD labels
instead of GPT and I had it a little rough creating my slices, because I am
used to a situation where I only created / amd swap for such servers
because it made life easy for me during backup. I would completely wipe all
data on the second disk every Saturday, via a cron, and write it with data
from the primary/running/active disk as a means of backup. Not so dandy but
works quite fine anyway.
Now I have gotten to a point where I am stopped in my tracks because I
cannot do dump/restore on a journaled fs:
root at mail:/ # mount
/dev/ada0a on / (ufs, local, journaled soft-updates)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
/dev/ada1a on /disk2 (ufs, local, journaled soft-updates)
fdescfs on /dev/fd (fdescfs)
root at mail:/ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ada0a 446G 6.5G 403G 2% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ada1a 446G 32M 410G 0% /disk2
fdescfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev/fd
root at mail:/ # ls -al /disk2/
total 32840
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 32768 Dec 22 16:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 1024 Dec 26 16:30 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512 Dec 22 16:28 .snap
-r-------- 1 root wheel 33554432 Dec 22 16:28 .sujournal
root at mail:/ # grep dump /scripts/backup_primary_disk.sh
/sbin/dump -L0af - / | (cd /disk2/; restore -rf - )
root at mail:/ # /sbin/dump -L0af - / | (cd /disk2/; restore -rf -)
mksnap_ffs: Cannot create snapshot //.snap/dump_snapshot: /: Snapshots are
not yet supported when running with journaled soft updates: Operation
not supported
dump: Cannot create //.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory
Tape is not a dump tape
root at mail:/ #
So, do I have to disable the journaling option from the FS, or is there a
better way to achieve the same result with journaling still on?
--
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
"I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."
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