Amanda-Users

Re: Problem with dump

2004-06-01 15:34:45
Subject: Re: Problem with dump
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:22:45 -0400
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:10:26PM -0300, Marcelo Leão Caffaro wrote:
> Anyone can help-me?
> 
> DISK planner tux2.employer.com.br /backup3/mensaldemaio
> START planner date 20040601
> WARNING planner tapecycle (1) <= runspercycle (28)
> INFO planner Adding new disk tux2.employer.com.br:/backup3/mensaldemaio.
...
>   |   DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory
>   |   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

Don't use dump, instead use tar.
Dump can not handle less than an entire file system except for
doing full dumps.  And it can not track when it did the dump
for partial file systems (dumpdates file; amanda record option).

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Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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