Linux ADSM Mini-Howto
by Thomas König, 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.
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.
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
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: $!\n";
while(<MTAB>) {
next if /pid/;
chop;
/^(\S*)\s(\S*)\s(\S*)\s.*$/;
$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 $fstype\n";
}
}
close(MNTTAB);
exit 0;
You do not need to install any shared libraries for these clients;
everything is linked statically.
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.
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).
