Author: "James Marcinek" <jmarc1 AT jemconsult DOT biz>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:18:49 -0500
Hello everyone, Finally doing the backups. This is my first run and it's on a client. I'm having a problem backup up the / partition (/dev/hde5). Here's the line in the logfile: FAIL planner domino /
Tar works on filesystems, dump on devices. Try using your mount point instead of the device mounted on it ( / in this case). However, since the Linux box I tested it on did successfully create a tar
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 06:32:47 -0500 (EST)
What OS and OS version is the client, and what version of amanda? Also, as someone pointed out, it makes a lot more sense (especially with tar) to use directory names rather than device names. I vagu
Author: "James Marcinek" <jmarc1 AT jemconsult DOT biz>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:03:55 -0500
The server's running RH9 and the client is RHWS 2.1. I'm making my backups based upon the 'dumptypes' defined in the amanda.conf example that was provided to me. The only 'dump' dumptype that I see i
Author: "James Marcinek" <jmarc1 AT jemconsult DOT biz>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 12:38:40 -0500
Here's the version of amanda on both the client and the server: Client amanda version: rpm -qa |grep amanda amanda-client-2.4.2p2-4 amanda-2.4.2p2-4 Server amanda version: rpm -qa |grep amanda amanda
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:48:22 -0500 (EST)
I believe that's an affected version. Try upgrading to 2.4.4p4 from www.amanda.org. You just put the directory name in place of the device, e.g. domino / $DUMPTYPE -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department o
Author: "James Marcinek" <jmarc1 AT jemconsult DOT biz>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:26:19 -0500
OK but if it's the / partion, will it also try to backup the other filesystems (such /var, /usr, etc) or do I have to define an exclusion list? The examples I've patterned the diskfile showed somthi
Author: "James Marcinek" <jmarc1 AT jemconsult DOT biz>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:54:21 -0500
OK I got you. Could I still add options, enclosing them with them within the '{}' fields (eg exlcude "/var/holding" ) servername /var root-tar { exclude "/var/holding" } or can I only do this in the
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:32:38 -0500 (EST)
No, it won't. When using tar, amanda calls it with the "--one-file-system" flag. No. Look in the amanda(8) man page for an explanation of all the fields in a disklist entry (DLE). In your example abo
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:03:53 -0500 (EST)
You can do it in disklist, but it would look like this: servername /var { root-tar exclude "./holding" } 1) The dumptype is defined just like in amanda.conf. That is, the first entry is like a #INCLU
Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:45:55 +0100
OK I got you. Could I still add options, enclosing them with them within the '{}' fields (eg exlcude "/var/holding" ) servername /var root-tar { exclude "/var/holding" } Note that the braces syntax