Amanda uses either your local dump program (ufsdump for Solaris, for
example) or Gnu tar.  IF you don't specify or change the configuration,
you're going to get dump.  I don't know of any dump programs offhand that
will dump an NFS mount.

I believe you will have to switch to GNUTAR in your config file to make this
work.


Dana Bourgeois


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Frank Smith
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:46 PM
> To: Tavis Gustafson; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: dump failing for nfs mounts.
> 
> 
> --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
> 
> 
> 
>