RE: Backup to DVD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darrell May [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:41 AM
> To: 'D. Thomas Podnar'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup to DVD
> 
> > hardware compression, do a Master Backup, and post your summary
here.
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> JMHO, this is not a development issue relating to the SME server.
This is
> a
> discussion singularly about BackupEdge compression and as such does
not
> belong on devinfo.  Your requests for follow up posts may more
> appropriately
> be directed to a Microlite resource, say [email protected] or even
to
> you directly if you so choose.
> 
> Alternately, if you wish to discuss:
> 
> - building an rpm for install of BackupEdge onto SME
> - developing and incorporating BackupEdge into the SME server-manager
> interface


How needs an rpm? It has a self-extracting, fantastic installation
program included.

1) If using CD-RW, or DVD, you need these loaded in /etc/modules.conf,
note     you must change the b/u device name:

 # Adding ide-scsi for CD-ROM
 # If CD/DVD on Secondary Master, then it would be "hdc"
 # Add to /etc/modules.conf
 #-- Microlite Corporation --CD Start
 options ide-cd ignore=hde
 pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
 pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
 pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
 #-- Microlite Corporation --CD End--#

I think adding ide-scsi allows any streaming backup program to write to
CD-RW, DVD, such as tar. But haven't tried it yet.
 
A menu system starts for doing all the setup; if you have a sample media
in backup device it detects backup devices for you, sets all the device
params. Backups/Restores, prepares bootable disaster recovery media on
floppy, CD or DVD images.

JMHO: Backup, restore, and disaster recovery are critical in a
commercial server I don't see how it isn't important to development. I
find this product dirt cheap for what it does. Even if I had the source
code, I wouldn't want to maintain it, let alone improve it, for the
amount of money I pay them. I forgot to mention on my systems with
DVD+RW, they back up around 300MB/minute. 

I guess it would be nice to add an item in Server-Manager. The menu does
require a shell, it isn't a web interface. It does include command line
versions of all the primary functions, edge command lines are a superset
of tar.

Does SME 6 come with, or has anyone ported the ability to use USB
devices, such as USB DVD/CD on SME 6?






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