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We're using RMAN to back up our 9.2 RAC database to an OCFS v1 volume. We have an existing shell script that we use for copying files from disk to tape via tar, one file at a time. (Don't ask why. It's a legacy script. Long story.) We're tweaking this script to use --o_direct when tarring the file to tape and that seems to be working fine: # tape device is /dev/nst0 $ tar

I've got a Redhat 5 server running Samba, and two dualboot CentOS 5 workstations. Until we get a better backup strategy, I'm backing up the workstations to the server via mounting a shared samba drive to /mnt. Trying tar cvf /mnt/samba_share/backup.tar /* eventually yields backing up /mnt, which produces an unwanted loop, including /mnt/samba_share I looked at tar with --exclude /mnt

Hi Joe, What you can do is to tell the tape drive to not rewind after the first backup. You have to select the dedicated device for that. If my memory serves me, the device which does not rewind at backup end is /dev/rmt{x}.4 or something like that. So, the batch could be like this: tar cvf /dev/rmt{x}.4 myfiles_from_AIX smbclient ... -Tcga /dev/rmt{x} #after the NT backup,

> Message: 26 > Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:56:38 -0400 (EDT) > From: Scott Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU> > Subject: [CentOS] Help with backups > To: centos at centos.org > Message-ID: > <Pine.GSO.4.64L.0708172056230.29233 at biohazard-cafe.mit.edu> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > I've got a Redhat 5 server running Samba,

I need to zip the output of smbtar, but it seems to me that the tar extensions of smbclient don't support any zip option; if I'm wrong please tell me and stop further reading :) I'm trying to pipe the output of smbclient/smbtar to gzip. Basically something like: smbclient '\server\share' -E -N -Tc - | gzip > test.tar.gz However I have a problem with smbclient tarring to

We are running Centos 5.6. All was fine until yesterday. I attempted to tar a 14KB work file to a USB floppy (/dev/sdb) for transport to another server. Unfortunately, I keyed in 'tar cvf /dev/sda filename' instead of 'tar cvf /dev/sdb filename'. /dev/sda is our main (boot/root/apps) scsi hard drive. I realized my mistake, but it was too late. The system is still

I just joined the list and appologize if this has been answered before but I am trying to interface between R and the Compaq Visual Fortran compiler version 6.6 for Windows. I found the following instructions on the web -- and an example. When I follow these directions exactly. R 2.0.0 crashes. Has anyone had any experience with this? Below are the instructions that I located: Thanks Dan

Hi All, I need to write a script that I will manually start (or a cron job in future) but I need it to do a number of things in order one after another. How do i do that so everything gets dont as the steps depend on each other. Example: cd /system_backups/ tar cvf apache-conf.tar /etc/httpd/conf/* gzip -v9 apache-conf.tar tar cvf apache-data.tar /var/www/* gzip -v9 apache-data.tar

Dear Colleague: I am glad to hear from you. I was going to contact you and ask if you have notes on the steps involved on how you implemented LSODA. I will gladly take the project on. In addition to dassl, I want to implement ODESSA also. In other words, my project is a "suite" of ode solvers for R. The application of these solvers will be to the study of the distribution of

We switched our mail server over from mbox to maildir a few months ago and couldn't be happier - the performance under normal load is incredible. However we now have a problem with backup.. Typically we would run tar on the mail server, sending its output to another server via ssh.. Like this: tar cfp - /home | gzip | ssh other.server (cd /backups && tar xfp -).. I have tried

I have just completed installing CentOS 4.2 (I came over here from Fedora-Land (core-3)). I did this via a fresh install. I tar'd everything to an external drive reinstalled the new stuff and everything is working very well. I've just got one issue. I have a full system backup Backup.tar that has a size of 78,717,880,320. When I issue the command tar -xvf Backup.tar I get only about

Hello, I'm having trouble installing Samba on a SCO Open Server 5 system. I have gone over the Skunkware CD and the Caldera Website. I can find TAR'd versions of SAMBA but for some reason it won't let me start smbd or nmbd without giving me a core dump. Does anyone know either 1. why I'm getting the core dumps or 2. If there is a package install for OSv5. The reason I ask

Hello, I have been trying to install the tar'd version of samba because I need a few options I can not get to work with the RPM version. This is what I do when i setup samba # tar xvfz samba.x.x.x #./configure --with-winbind --with-winbind-auth-challenge #make #make install And it goes through those steps fine, but when I try to run the smbd or nmbd daeomons, it says it cant find it. And

This is a simple question. How much file system overhead is there with this system? Is it only as large as the largest file transfered or could you potentially (even if configured correctly) end up with double what you started out with on the sending or receiving end? The reason I need to be sure is that I have a file system that's literally several hundred thousand files. Complete it's

Hi [1.] One line summary of the problem: rsync segfaulting and the kernel oops'ing while synchronizing two smbfs's [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I am implementing file synchronization between two Windows NT 4 machines through two smbfs mounts. Rsync runs for about half an hour; then the kernel gives an oops and rsync segfaults. Hereafter the smbfs file system is

Hi. Is there such a limit to 2GB in samba 2.2.8a-1? I get a "File imit exceeded" when I try to tar or cp smth to a smbmount. On both machines I can successfully do dd if=/dev/zero and create a file of 3GB, I can also tar -cvf it but no cp to smb. RH8 if it matters...

Hi Using tar i normally create an archive etc and then unpack that archive, job done. But i am copying from one filesystem to another on the same host, they are 2 seperate nfs filesystems, and i wonder is it possible to use tar to do this as opposed to say rsync etc. tar -cvf /some/input/dir to/here etc ? thanks

CentOS 4.1 X86_64 I am trying to collect all my music files and extract them into a new directory flat, (without the hierarchy) The command works find without the pipe, but do not work with. 1.Why don't the command work after the pipe? 2.How do I remove the hierarchy before extracting? $ tar -cvf music.tar `find ../ -name '*.mp3' -o -name '*.ogg'` | tar -xvf music.tar

Howdy, I need binaries of llvm 2.2 tools like llvm-as for my students...i'm putting here if someone wants to check 'em out. First one is intel mac: http://www.antlr.org/download/llvm/ just jumped into my /usr/local and tar'd up everything that was in bin/ etc/ include/ lib/ related to llvm. --prefix on configure was / usr/local. Building fedora linux intel as we speak. Ter

I'm having an intermittent problem with fax transmissions, something I call the streaking mascara syndrome. TxFax will be part way through a transmission when something fails--on the fax printer, part of the page will have correctly printed, but the rest of the page is "streaked" to the bottom. I have several successful multi-page transmissions interspersed with streaked