Re: DUMP cannot read device
2003-01-31 17:49:53
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 at 2:31pm, Santiago wrote
> amcheck passes fine. Amanda has permission to read this volume and can
> read it (I tried as amanda to read it).
>
> I keep getting this error (from sendsize log):
>
> time 0.847: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /r/amanda/b1"
> sendsize[8754]: time 0.847: running /usr/local/libexec/killpgrp
> sendsize[8754]: time 0.850: DUMP: Cannot open /dev/i2o/hda1
> sendsize[8754]: time 0.850: DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
>
> man dump (snippet)
> files-to-dump is either a mountpoint of a filesystem or a list of
> files and directories to be backed up as a subset of a filesystem.
> ____________
>
> /dev/i2o/hda1 is a device. I don't have it listed in either amanda.conf
> or disklist. It is the device that is mounted as /r on this system. I
> don't know why dump is trying to open the device and not read the
> directory.
>
> Posibilities - this directory is on the holding disk '/r/amanda',
> however, I have the 'holdingdisk no' in the dumptype definition.
>
> Ideas? Please .. .
If what you are trying to backup is not an entire filesystem (as it sounds
like this isn't), then you must use tar and not dump.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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