Hi everyone.
I've run into strange problem with an old release
I am new in maintenance of bsd-like systems so I simply followed tutorials from freebsd.org. I tried to retrieve the ports collection as they said (in order to install xtrabackup).
But when I tried to run
And
and so on.
More than that, I don't see either bsdtar or tar installed and when trying to install got:
Any suggestions what should I do? The server has living sites and backup must be done before any upgrade/reinstall.
I've run into strange problem with an old release
Code:
# uname -mrs
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64
portsnap fetch
done fine:
Code:
# portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Fri Apr 27 18:52:46 MSK 2018 to Sat May 5 11:21:44 MSK 2018.
Fetching 5 metadata patches... done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 4 metadata files... done.
Fetching 1125 patches...
...
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 104 new ports or files... done.
portsnap update
result was unexpected:
Code:
# portsnap update
/usr/ports was not created by portsnap.
You must run 'portsnap extract' before running 'portsnap update'.
portsnap extract
suddenly failed with
Code:
# portsnap extract
/usr/ports/.arcconfig
/usr/bin/bsdtar: Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
/usr/ports/.gitattributes
/usr/bin/bsdtar: Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
/usr/ports/.gitauthors
/usr/bin/bsdtar: Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
More than that, I don't see either bsdtar or tar installed and when trying to install got:
Code:
# pkg_info | grep bsdtar
# pkg_info | grep tar
#
# pkg install bsdtar
pkg: not found
# pkg install tar
pkg: not found
Any suggestions what should I do? The server has living sites and backup must be done before any upgrade/reinstall.