Re: ERROR: Unable to create a vfat filesystem on 0, 0, 01

Hello Michael,

Could you give us the command line you're launching please, I can't comment.
Also please use option -K 99 in addition and provde as well the log again.

Bruno.

Michael Duvall said on Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 08:25:55PM +0000:

>Hello Bruno,
>
>I am still having issues with generating a backup. Attached is the log file.
>
>I have about 100GB of data on a 512GB drive, so I am trying to backup to an NFS mounted file system. No matter what I try, and even with the NFS mounted on /tmp/mnt/, I get the message, "Please mount that partition before you try to backup or restore from it."
>
>Thank you,
>
>--
>
>Michael Duvall <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>Concurrent Real-Time
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruno Cornec <[email protected]<mailto:Bruno%20Cornec%20%[email protected]%3e>>
>To: Michael Duvall <[email protected]<mailto:Michael%20Duvall%20%[email protected]%3e>>, Mondo mailing list <[email protected]<mailto:Mondo%20mailing%20list%20%[email protected]%3e>>
>Subject: Re: [Mondo-devel] ERROR: Unable to create a vfat filesystem on 0,0,01
>Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 01:20:07 +0100
>
>
>Michael Duvall said on Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 06:40:42PM +0000:
>
>I updated /etc/mindi/mindi.conf with EXTRA_SPACE=500000. Thank you!. Unfortunately, I now have another error.
>
>Not quite sure what is happening here. Maybe user error, but I am not sure.
>
>
>In that case yes ;-)
>
>
>My system does NOT have a SATA DVD drive. I am using a USB DVD. I tried to perform a backup using both "DVD disks" and "USB Key/Disk" without success.
>
>
>So you should use a DVD disk, whether it's connected through SATA or USB doesn't make a difference for MondoRescue.
>
>Using USB disk doesn't work as mondoarchive tries to create a bootable filesystem on it, and can't. All what it should do is create a bootable ISO image and burn it to your drive.
>
>
>Bruno.
>

>INFO: Time started: Thu Jan 17 15:12:48 2019
>
>DBG2: [TH=14499] libmondo-tools.c->setup_tmpdir#740: bkpinfo->tmpdir is being set to /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi
>DBG2: [TH=14499] libmondo-tools.c->setup_scratchdir#759: Purging old scratchdir /mondo.scratch.*
>DBG2: [TH=14499] libmondo-tools.c->setup_scratchdir#784: bkpinfo->scratchdir is being set to /tmp/mondo.scratch.gqBgni
>INFO: root is mounted at /dev/mapper/cl_ihawk-root
>INFO: That doesn't mean /dev/mapper/cl_ihawk-root is the root partition. It's just a debugging message. Relax. It's part of am_I_in_disaster_recovery_mode().
>DBG1: [TH=14499] libmondo-devices.c->am_I_in_disaster_recovery_mode#167: Is this a ramdisk? result = FALSE
>INFO: running: dmesg -n1 > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran just fine. :-)
>INFO: Mondo Archive v3.2.2-r3685 --- http://www.mondorescue.org
>INFO: running x86_64 binaries
>INFO: running on x86_64 architecture
>INFO: -----------------------------------------------------------
>INFO: NB: Mondo logs almost everything, so don't panic if you see
>INFO: some error messages.  Please read them carefully before you
>INFO: decide to break out in a cold sweat.    Despite (or perhaps
>INFO: because of) the wealth of messages. some users are inclined
>INFO: to stop reading this log. If Mondo stopped for some reason,
>INFO: chances are it's detailed here.  More than likely there's a
>INFO: message at the very end of this log that will tell you what
>INFO: is wrong. Please read it!                          -Devteam
>INFO: -----------------------------------------------------------
>INFO: Zero...
>DBG1: [Main] mondoarchive.c->welcome_to_mondoarchive#97: One...
>DBG2: [Main] mondoarchive.c->welcome_to_mondoarchive#98: Two...
>DBG3: [Main] mondoarchive.c->welcome_to_mondoarchive#99: Three...
>DBG4: [Main] mondoarchive.c->welcome_to_mondoarchive#100: Four...
>DBG2: [Main] mondoarchive.c->distro_specific_kludges_at_start_of_mondoarchive#115: Unmounting old ramdisks if necessary
>INFO: running: mount | grep cdrom | grep super > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran with res=256
>INFO: running: mount | grep floppy | grep super > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran with res=256
>DBG1: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->mount_boot_if_necessary#1189: Started sub
>DBG4: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->mount_boot_if_necessary#1190: About to set g_boot_mountpt[0] to '\0'
>DBG4: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->mount_boot_if_necessary#1192: Done. Great. Seeting command to something
>DBG4: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->mount_boot_if_necessary#1194: Cool. Command = 'grep -v ":" /etc/fstab | grep -vE '^#.*$' | grep -E "[ 	]/boot[ 	]" | tr -s ' ' '	' | cut -f1 | head -n1'
>DBG4: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->mount_boot_if_necessary#1198: tmp = 'UUID=ea730d7f-9636-4285-899b-acad7b8dccc0'
>DBG2: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->mount_boot_if_necessary#1199: /boot is at UUID=ea730d7f-9636-4285-899b-acad7b8dccc0 according to /etc/fstab
>DBG1: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->mount_boot_if_necessary#1239: Ended sub
>DBG1: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->get_kernel_version#246: g_kernel_version = 3.100000
>INFO: running: rm -Rf /var/cache/mondo/changed.files* > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran just fine. :-)
>INFO: Checking sanity of your Linux distribution
>INFO: running: grep ramdisk /proc/devices > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran with res=256
>INFO: running: modprobe brd 2> /dev/null > /dev/null > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran just fine. :-)
>INFO: running: grep ramdisk /proc/devices > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: 1 ramdisk
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran just fine. :-)
>INFO: running: mount | grep -Ew 'vfat|fat|dos' | grep -vE "/dev/fd|nexdisk" > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: /dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=winnt,errors=remount-ro)
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran just fine. :-)
>INFO: running: mount | grep -Ew 'vfat|fat|dos' | grep -Ew efi > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: /dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=winnt,errors=remount-ro)
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran just fine. :-)
>INFO: I think you have a EFI/UEFI partition.
>DBG4: [Main] libmondo-files.c->find_home_of_exe#360: find_home_of_exe --- Found cmp at /bin/cmp
>INFO: running: mindi -V > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: Mindi v3.0.2-r3685
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran just fine. :-)
>INFO: running: mr-parted2fdisk -l 2>/dev/null | grep -i raid > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran with res=256
>INFO: Done.
>DBG2: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->setup_tmpdir#705: Purging old tmpdir /tmp/mondo.tmp.7sXibi
>DBG2: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->setup_tmpdir#740: bkpinfo->tmpdir is being set to /tmp/mondo.tmp.7drDnO
>DBG2: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->setup_scratchdir#756: Purging old scratchdir /tmp/mondo.scratch.gqBgni
>DBG2: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->setup_scratchdir#769: Created scratch directory /home
>DBG2: [Main] libmondo-tools.c->setup_scratchdir#784: bkpinfo->scratchdir is being set to /home/mondo.scratch.GFpMrk
>DBG3: [Main] libmondo-devices.c->interactively_obtain_media_parameters_from_user#2212: media type = netfs
>INFO:  
>INFO: Please mount that partition before you try to backup to or restore from it.
>INFO: running: umount -d /mnt/cdrom > /tmp/mondo.tmp.7drDnO/mondo-run-prog-thing.tmp 2> /tmp/mondo.tmp.7drDnO/mondo-run-prog-thing.err
>INFO: --------------------------------start of output-----------------------------
>INFO: umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted
>INFO: --------------------------------end of output------------------------------
>INFO: ...ran with res=8192
>DBG1: [Main] ../common/newt-specific.c->finish#440: Calling newtSuspend()


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