On many (some?) OSs you can't use dump on a subdirectory. Use GNU tar
instead, or use dump on the entire filesystem.

Frank

--On Thursday, February 06, 2003 18:46:37 -0300 "Luis E. Cruz Campos" <lcruz AT 
inter-media DOT cl> wrote:

I have a problem with my server, i try configure amanda, buy I get this mail
when run amdump:

These dumps were to tape hosting01.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  ns.webspac /usr/local/backup/data lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:01
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Output Size (meg)           0.0        0.0        0.0
Original Size (meg)         0.0        0.0        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --
Filesystems Dumped            0          0          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)         --         --         --

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         --


FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/-- ns.webspac /usr/local/backup/data lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1]
sendbackup: start [ns.xxx.com:/usr/local/backup/data level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/sbin/restore -f... -
sendbackup: info end
|   DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory
|   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
sendbackup: error [/sbin/dump returned 1]

I hope anyone can help me,
regards,

Pd. sorry my english...

Luis

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