Re: Why include parent directory in disklist?

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On Wednesday, 06.04.2005 at 10:03 -0400, Vicki Stanfield wrote:

> >>I am still trying to understand and improve my inherited amanda 
> >>configuration. I notice that in the disklist, there are parent 
> >>directories listed before their children. Here is an example:
> >>
> >>myhost        /                               comp-low-tar
> >>myhost        /usr                            comp-low-tar
> >>myhost        /var                            comp-med-tar
> >>myhost        /net/myhost/home              comp-med-tar
> >
> >Normally, a single entry in the disklist with have it subdirectories
> >backed up, as long as that stays on a single disk partition.  So, if you
> >have / and /usr on different partitions, you need to list them
> >separately.  If they're on the same partition, you don't need to list
> >them again.
>
> Thanks Dave,
>  So then if /net/mysystem/home is on the same partition as 
> /net/mysystem/username, is /net/mysystem/username being backed up twice. 
> It sounds to me like it is.

Erm, not sure, because /net/mysystem/username is not mentioned in your
disklist.  From the above entries, /net/mysystem/username lies under /
and would thus be backed up.

Perhaps it would be useful if you show us the partition layout on your
system.

What output does the command 'mount' return?

Dave.
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Dave Ewart
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Computing Manager, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford
Cancer Research UK
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