The collected works of damiga

Hi,

Just wanted to say hello.

I received my first SGI today.
It's an O2, R5K 200.

Sadly It got banged up during shipping. cracks in the plastic shell.
But it seems to work, boots up!

I live in Stockholm, Sweden.

Anyways, I thought my first mission would be to make a complete backup of the system as it came freshly installed.
It was missing the second hdd sled so I cant clone the system over to a spare hdd that I have.

I was thinking of making a backup over NFS to my linux server.
And then swapping hdd and boot from the Irix install cd and restoring the entire system.
Do I need some special applications for backup and restore, or are they included in a standard IRIX installation?

Thanks in advance!

/Daniel

PS. got myself a Sun blade 100 also about a week ago, I understand that there are people using Sun mashines here also?

Thanks Pontus!

I'd really appreciate that, let me know when you have something available. No rush though =)

Anyways, back on topic. I've done a bit of searching and managed to do a backup from the, eh, "system manager" i believe it was called. The backup was made to a nfs-share on a linux server.

I then swapped the drives, made new filesystem with fx after booting from cd.
Now i figured I could restore from the "recover system" option, but it seems like it only accepts tape drives, which I don't have.
So i dropped into a shell and tried mounting tha backup folder with NFS so i could use cpio, but no go with mounting folder.
# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.10:mnt/sdc1/nfs /restore
mount:cannot get filehandle for 192.168.1.10:mnt/sdc1/nfs - Permission denied
mount: giving up on: /restore

So, anyone got any pointers? been searching for about two hours straight here.
Is there another route I should choose?

if i try:
mount -t nfs 192.168.1.10:/mnt/sdc1/nfs /restore
or
mount 192.168.1.10:/mnt/sdc1/nfs /restore

it says:
nfs: invalid argument

I also tried setting the export options to the same as yours, except the ip ofc.

Well the disk is freshly formatted so nothing installed at all.
I'm booting from the installation CD with the option "recover system" from prom and then dropping into a shell.

So perhaps there's no support for NFS when i've booted it like that?
Which would explain why it doesn't work

Thanks for the links!
I''ve browsed through those but since I dont have an extra hd sled, and no tape drive, I need to be able to fetch the backup archive over NFS.
Unless there's an alternative to NFS to access a backup archive over the network?

Ok now I managed to make a temporary "sled" so I can have the new hard drive connected at slot 2, so I'll go forward with a clone of the drive.

Thanks for your input ppl!

Yes! it worked, clone successful and system booted on the new drive!

BTW, this site doesn't work in netscape 4.05