Re: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes ... Help!
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 01:12, nate wrote:
> testuser said:
> > Evening all,
> > I've been getting this error whenever I run a backup using bru, tar or
> > dump. This happens regardless of destination media. I've tested backing
> > up to hard disk, remote DAT DDS-3 tape drive and the local internal
> > Seagate STD224000N DAT DDS-3 tape drive and all give the same error.
>
> > Has anyone resolved this issue before? I've checked Google and results
> > are basically useless. Any help is greatly appreciated right about now!
> > Thanks.
>
>
> doing a quick search of google myself leads me to ask this question:
>
> are you attemping to backup /proc onto your tape?
This bit me when I tried to tar up my disk. Trying to back up
/proc/kore just doesn't work!!!!
Note how I exclude certain directories from my backups:
#!/bin/sh
x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M`
y=`uname -n`
dest=/var/backups/data
cd /
tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-root.tar.bz2 \
--recursion --exclude=cdrom \
--exclude=cdrom0 \
--exclude=cdrom1 \
--exclude=dev \
--exclude=dvd \
--exclude=home/me/.mozilla/default/igov8kj8.slt/Cache \
--exclude=home/me/.pyne \
--exclude=home/me/OpenOffice.org1.0 \
--exclude=home/me/download \
--exclude=home/me/News \
--exclude=mnt \
--exclude=proc \
--exclude=root/images \
--exclude=tmp \
--exclude=var/backups/data \
--exclude=var/cache/apt/archives \
--exclude=var/cache/aptcached/archives \
--exclude=var/download \
--exclude=var/mdk.tars \
--exclude=usr/local/data \
--exclude=.journal \
/
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