Hey all,
I am reporpusing a Mac Mini Core 2 Duo and a Drobo Gen 2 for a offsite backup server. It's been a struggle to gettting it all to work. First I tried with a Mac Mini G4 but that didn't work because there was a difference between big and little endian which made ext2fs not work (need hardlinks for BackupPC or I would have gone with fat32 and been done a lot faster).
Then I started looking at my other Mac Mini. I couldn't boot of the newly installed harddrive when I did an automated disk setup (bsdlabel works fine though!), putting together a "dummy vga" adapter for the mac mini to boot headless and format the drobo to something I can work with (Had to boot into Linux and use linux-utils to setup the drobo as ext3 using drobo-utils,). I need to figure out how to make FreeBSD see it as ext3 and not ext2, I am not sure but I guessing FreeBSD sees it as a ext2 filesystem.
So, now I am nearing a final solution, just verified that I can move the Drobo between my main server (which is going to handle onsite backup) and the offsite server and that the Drobo firmware understands the filesystem, can recover from pulling a drive and putting another one in it's place etc.
The last little quirk I have left is that I get error messages from the USB system. Seeing as I am a more of a pupil than administrator/developer/guru I have no idea where to start looking for a solution. The errors I get are:
Where would be the best place to start looking for a solution? It's a lot to learn and take in when Mac OS 9/Mac OS X has been the only system I've used for the past 10 years or so.
Regards
Pasi
I am reporpusing a Mac Mini Core 2 Duo and a Drobo Gen 2 for a offsite backup server. It's been a struggle to gettting it all to work. First I tried with a Mac Mini G4 but that didn't work because there was a difference between big and little endian which made ext2fs not work (need hardlinks for BackupPC or I would have gone with fat32 and been done a lot faster).
Then I started looking at my other Mac Mini. I couldn't boot of the newly installed harddrive when I did an automated disk setup (bsdlabel works fine though!), putting together a "dummy vga" adapter for the mac mini to boot headless and format the drobo to something I can work with (Had to boot into Linux and use linux-utils to setup the drobo as ext3 using drobo-utils,). I need to figure out how to make FreeBSD see it as ext3 and not ext2, I am not sure but I guessing FreeBSD sees it as a ext2 filesystem.
So, now I am nearing a final solution, just verified that I can move the Drobo between my main server (which is going to handle onsite backup) and the offsite server and that the Drobo firmware understands the filesystem, can recover from pulling a drive and putting another one in it's place etc.
The last little quirk I have left is that I get error messages from the USB system. Seeing as I am a more of a pupil than administrator/developer/guru I have no idea where to start looking for a solution. The errors I get are:
Code:
Mar 13 22:29:47 mia kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00 44 7b f3 4a 00 00 80 00
Mar 13 22:29:48 mia kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
Mar 13 22:29:48 mia kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
Mar 13 22:38:32 mia kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00 47 2a 04 b2 00 00 80 00
Mar 13 22:38:32 mia kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
Mar 13 22:38:32 mia kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
Mar 13 23:03:56 mia kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 36 84 0f 52 00 00 48 00
Mar 13 23:03:56 mia kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
Mar 13 23:03:56 mia kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying command
Where would be the best place to start looking for a solution? It's a lot to learn and take in when Mac OS 9/Mac OS X has been the only system I've used for the past 10 years or so.
Regards
Pasi