Re: [9fans] p9p vbackup on linux

2008-07-03 Thread a
// The bytes you didn't post are the first 8 bytes of // sha1sum /dev/zero. Hey! How do you know what's in my /dev/zero? // Better to just use vacfs -m if you want to view vac, // and skip NFS entirely. To the extent that I just (or primarialy) want to see vac dumps, sure. The idea was having a

Re: [9fans] p9p vbackup on linux

2008-07-03 Thread Russ Cox
> Adding those lines verbatim to a file 'config', I then ran: > vnfs -c 16k config > and got back: > handle da...0d > I don't yet fully understand the implications of that 16 char hex string, > so I'm not posting it here, but I didn't seem to need it anywhere else. It was just a debugg

Re: [9fans] p9p vbackup on linux

2008-06-25 Thread a
Something of a recap from irc, but for others who might be interested: On OS X, this all just worked for me pretty much as described in the manual. With a running venti and $venti set, I ran this: sudo vbackup /dev/rdisk0s2 and a few hours later got output like this: mount /vav/200

[9fans] p9p vbackup on linux

2008-06-25 Thread John Soros
Hello, I am trying to set up a vbackup system on a linux machine. I am having problems mounting the nfs service. Here is how i am doing it: (the venti server works fine, for sure, and vbackup worked, as vftp can see the files) $ venti='tcp!venti!venti' vbackup /dev/sda6 mount /dazone/2008/0623/mn