Backups to DVD under CentOS 3 May 2007
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Did a full backup of the server last night in anticipation of installing VMware today.
First I had to install the dvd tools.
sudo yum install dvd+rw-tools
Then I did a made a temporary directory and did a full tar to it,
mkdir /tmp/backup.20070502 sudo tar cvzf /tmp/backup.20070502/all.tgz --exclude /tmp --exclude /sys --exclude /proc / > /tmp/backup.20070502/all.list
checked the size to make sure it would fit on a DVD,
du -s -B 1048576 backup.20070502/
and copied it there.
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -R -J -joliet-long /tmp/backup.20070502
After it was finished, I mounted the DVD,
mount /media/cdrecorder
and tested that I could read the files.
cat /media/cdrecorder/all.list tar tvfz /media/cdrecorder/all.tgz
April Windows Update Breaks File Sharing? 3 May 2007
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One of my customers had file sharing break on a Windows XP machine. When trying to reach the share on itself (I would browse to Network Neighborhood, select the computer, and try to access its share), it would give an error message to the effect of “not enough server storage available”.
Using Event Viewer, I would find:
Event ID : 2011
Source : Srv
Description: The Server's configuration parameter "IRPStackSize" is too
small for the server to use a local device. Please
increase the value of this parameter.
Although the error bore some similarity to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article 177078, the solution was an inexact fit. After lots of fiddling with IRPStackSize values, and switching Symantec 10.1.x off and on, it started working again.
Here is my cry for help to the VT TechSupport email list to see if anyone else had seen it, and here is a speedy response.
