FreeBSD

[staham]

I'm trying to back up a number of FreeBSD machines with TSM.

I've installed the Linux client, and it seems to work, after I added this to /etc/fstab:
etc /backup/etc nullfs ro 1 3
/var /backup/var nullfs ro 1 3
/usr /backup/usr nullfs ro 1 3

I.e. I mounted the directories/filesystems that I want to backup in a different directory, via nullfs.

I had to copy /etc/fstab to /usr/compat/linux/etc/mtab, and I did a s/ufs/ext3/.

The backup seems to work now, except for a problem with the "q fi" display.
It shows a null, or garbled filespace type, and a zero capacity.

Anyone got over this last hurdle?

"q occ" displays the correct sizes though.

 

[chad_small]

Since BSD is not natively supported my question is what filesystem type are you using? It sounds like you are attempting to backup an unsupported filesystem type.

 

[cheffern]

one serious thing to note -
TEST a RESTORE before you run this in production or the like.
if it doesn't work - no point in faking backups on it...

but good luck -
-Chef.

 

[staham]

Since BSD is not natively supported my question is what filesystem type are you using? It sounds like you are attempting to backup an unsupported filesystem type.

It uses UFS, but I changed the Linux compat mtab so that it looks like ext3.

The interesting thing is that the backups works.

 

[staham]

one serious thing to note -
TEST a RESTORE before you run this in production or the like.
if it doesn't work - no point in faking backups on it...

The restore tests I've done worked perfectly.

The scheduler seems to work as well.

 

[wildwest]

Try using the option VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT on the FreeBSD mount points and see what it does. Under Linux it's supposed to allow backups of unsupported FS types. I wonder how it would work with FreeBSD...