Gene Heskett wrote:

Can you post those 2 dumptypes from your amanda.conf?

here they are, along with the global dumptype.

define dumptype root-tar {
   global
   program "GNUTAR"
   comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
   compress none
   index
#    exclude list "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/exclude.gtar"
   priority low
}

define dumptype user-tar {
   root-tar
   comment "user partitions dumped with tar"
   priority medium
}

define dumptype global {
   comment "Global definitions"
   # This is quite useful for setting global parameters, so you don't have
   # to type them everywhere.  All dumptype definitions in this sample file
   # do include these definitions, either directly or indirectly.
   # There's nothing special about the name `global'; if you create any
   # dumptype that does not contain the word `global' or the name of any
   # other dumptype that contains it, these definitions won't apply.
   # Note that these definitions may be overridden in other
   # dumptypes, if the redefinitions appear *after* the `global'
   # dumptype name.
   # You may want to use this for globally enabling or disabling
   # indexing, recording, etc.  Some examples:
   # index yes
   # record no
   maxdumps 1
}

Sincerely,
Jason Edgecombe