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Linux ADSM Mini-Howto

by Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de

v, 15 January 1997

This document describes how to install and use a client for the commercial ADSM backup system for Linux/i386.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Installing the iBCS module

Installing the ADSM client

Running the client

Known Problems

Introduction

ADSM is a network-based backup system, sold by IBM, in use at many

organizations. There are clients for a large variety of systems

(different UNIX brands, Windows, Novell, Mac, Windows NT).

Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, there is no native Linux

version.

You will have to use the SCO binary, and install the iBCS2-emulator

for running ADSM. This description is for ADSM v2r1.

At the time if this writing, I am only aware of a version which works

with the i386 version of Linux.

Installing the iBCS module

The iBCS2 module is available from

ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/BETA/ibcs2. If you are running kernel

version 1.2.13, get ibcs-1.2-950721.tar.gz, unpac it and apply the

patches ibcs-1.2-950808.patch1 and ibcs-1.2-950828.patch2. You can

then type "make" and install the iBCS modlue with "insmod".

For a 2.0 kernel version, get ibcs-2.0-960610.tar.gz, unpack it in a

suitable place, chdir into that directory, and apply the following

patch:

--- iBCSemul/ipc.c.orig Wed Jan 15 21:32:15 1997

+++ iBCSemul/ipc.c Wed Jan 15 21:32:31 1997

@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@

switch (command) { case U_SEMCTL: cmd = ibcs_sem_trans(arg3);

arg4 = (union semun *)get_syscall_parameter (regs, 4);

arg4 = (union semun )(((unsigned long ) regs->esp) + (5));

is_p = (struct ibcs_semid_ds *)get_fs_long(arg4->buf); ifdef IBCS_TRACE if ((ibcs_trace & TRACE_API) || ibcs_func_p->trace)

Then, copy CONFIG.i386 to CONFIG, and type make.

If you don't have them already, create the needed device files by

executing

cd /dev ln -s null XOR ln -s null X0R mknod socksys c 30 0 mknod spx c 30 1 Installing the ADSM client

The SCO binary is supplied as three tar files, or disks. Change to

the root directory, set your umask according to your policies, and

unpack them from there (as root). In your Directory /tmp, you will

find an installation script; execute that.

You will then have to hand-edit /usr/adsm/dsm.sys and

/usr/adsm/dsm.opt. In dsm.sys, important lines to specify are:

Servername

The name of the server

TCPServeraddress

The fully qualified host name of the server

NODename

Your own hostname

In dsm.opt, you will have to specify

Server

As before

Followsymbolic

Wether or not to follow symbolic links (not a good idea, in general)

SUbdir

Wether to back up subdirectories (you usually want that)

domain

The file systems to back up

You will then have to create a SCO-compatible /etc/mnttab from your

/etc/fstab. You can use the following Perl script, fstab2mnttab, for

this.

!/usr/bin/perl

$mnttab_struct = "a32 a32 I L";

open(MTAB, "/etc/mtab") || die "Cannot open /etc/mtab: $!n";

open(MNTTAB, ">/etc/mnttab") || die "Cannot open /etc/mnttab: $!n";

while() {

next if /pid/;

chop;

/^(S)s(S)s(S)s.$/;

$device = $1;

$mountpt = $2;

$fstype = $3;

if($fstype ne "nfs" && $fstype ne "proc") {

$mnttab_rec = pack($mnttab_struct, $device, $mountpt, 0x9d2f, time()); syswrite(MNTTAB, $mnttab_rec, 72); print "Made entry for: $device $mountpt $fstypen";

}

}

close(MNTTAB);

exit 0;

You do not need to install any shared libraries for these clients;

everything is linked statically.

Running the client

There are two clients, dsm, which is an X11 interface, and dsmc, a

command-line interface. Your computer centre will tell you how to run

it. Some startup script at boot, for example

dsmc schedule -quiet 2>&1 >/dev/null &

will probably be required.

Known Problems

Unfortunately, SCO can only deal with hostnames no longer than eight

characters. If your hostname is longer, or fully qualified, you may

need to specify your hostname on the NODename line in

/usr/adsm/dsm.sys.

If you use the DISPLAY variable, you will have to supply the fully

qualified host name (i.e. DISPLAY=host.full.do.main:0 instead of

DISPLAY=host:0).