Coda File System

Re: backup

From: Peter J. Braam <braam_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 18:36:17 -0500 (EST)
What is written below is not true.  The backup server needs to have the
dumplist and other databases available but htere is no need to
run auth2 authmon or update stuff (although we do this as a matter of
routine to keep the databases up to date). 

Peter

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Henry Pierce wrote:

> 
> Yes.  
> 
> You have to be running authmon, updatesrv, and updateclnt 
> on the backup server.  Basically, all the data base files in
> /vice/db on your coda server must be available to the backup program
> for it to functionn correctly (just like they do for a non-SCM server).
> That will solve the problem with VRDB issue once you have those 
> services running.
> 
> There is another problem that may arise after you address this.
> Make sure /vice/db/vicetab is setup so backup may locate
> your backup directories.
> 
> regards,
> henry m. pierce
> 
> ------------------------
> Henry M. Pierce
> Research Programmer
> Department of Computer Science
> Carnegie Mellon University
> 5000 Forbes Avenue
> Pittsbugh, PA
> 
> 
> hmpierce_at_cs.cmu.edu	hmp_at_infomagic.com
> 
> On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, the prophet wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:29:39 -0500 (EST)
> > From: the prophet <elijah.daniel_at_yale.edu>
> > Reply-To: linux-coda_at_TELEMANN.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU
> > To: linux-coda_at_TELEMANN.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU
> > Subject: backup
> > Resent-Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:32:26 -0500
> > Resent-From: linux-coda_at_TELEMANN.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU
> > 
> > I'm having problems with backup.  At first, it would die whenever it was
> > invoked without an explicit backup directory as a result of a minor
> > bug.  Changing line 783 of coda-src/volutil/backup.cc from
> > 
> > if (dumpdir)
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > if (*dumpdir)
> > 
> > fixes this problem.  However, it still dumps core on me:
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > [root_at_triffid db]# backup dumplist              
> > 
> > Date: Fri 04/03/98
> > 
> > 15:30:12 CheckVRDB: could not open VRDB
> > Partition /vicepa: inodes in use: 4, total: 262144.
> > 15:30:12 Device 834 requested by partition /coda_backup in use by /vicepa!
> > 
> > Assertion failed: file "partition.c", line 137
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > --
> > 
> > Any ideas what's going on here?
> > 
> > -Eli Daniel
> > 
> >       0
> >         0
> > \  /\ 0
> >  \/ o\ 0 
> >  /\  /
> > /  \/
> > 
> 
Received on 1998-04-03 18:40:09