--On Monday, October 27, 2003 19:03:22 -0800 Tavis Gustafson <tavis AT 
hq.dreamhost DOT com> wrote:

> I am trying to use amanda to backup nfs mounts.  I get this in my sendsize
> reports. Any ideas?
> 
> sendsize: debug 1 pid 9385 ruid 34 euid 34 start time Mon Oct 27 17:37:10
> 2003
> /usr/lib/amanda/sendsize: version 2.4.2p2
> calculating for amname '/mnt/netapp/dat1', dirname '/mnt/netapp/dat1'
> sendsize: getting size via dump for /mnt/netapp/dat1 level 0
> sendsize: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /mnt/netapp/dat1"
> running /usr/lib/amanda/killpgrp
> dumpe2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
> dump: No such file or directory while trying to open 0Ssf
> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
> .....
> (no size line match in above dump output)
> 
>       Thank You
> 
> Tavis
> DreamHost

Dump programs are specific to the filesystem type they were designed for,
ufsdump for ufs, linux dump for ext2, vxdump for Veritas, etc., and only
for a raw device (some will do subdirectories, but then can't update
dumpdates appropriately.

Use tar instead for an NFS mounted filesystem.

Frank