Chris Marble wrote:
My /dev/root isn't a sym link but a normal device file. No LVM in use
either. I'm trying to figure out why amanda's backing up /dev/root instead
of simply /. Here's the lines from disklist:
Sakai / comp-root 1
[...]
[10:00am] cmarble@sakai (/dev): ll sda1 sda2 sda root
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 2 Oct 26 04:34 root
[...]
sendsize.20051026000002.debug:sendsize[3765]: time 0.003: calculating for
device '/dev/root' with 'ext3'
sendsize.20051026000002.debug:sendsize[3765]: time 0.003: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf
1048576 - /dev/root"
sendsize.20051026000002.debug:sendsize[3765]: time 0.028: DUMP: Cannot open
/dev/root
sendsize.20051027000002.debug:sendsize[3634]: time 0.007: calculating for
device '/dev/root' with 'ext3'
sendsize.20051027000002.debug:sendsize[3634]: time 0.007: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf
1048576 - /dev/root"
sendbackup.20051027001751.debug:sendbackup: time 0.098: dumping device
'/dev/root' with 'ext3'
sendbackup.20051027001751.debug:sendbackup: argument list: dump 0usf 1048576 -
/dev/root
sendbackup.20051027001751.debug:sendbackup: time 0.104: 93: normal(|):
DUMP: Dumping /dev/root (an unlisted file system) to standard output
You see that amanda is asking for information on /dev/root rather than simply /
That is because dump needs the block disk device. Dump has builtin
knowledge of ext3 (other dump programs have each their own knowledge
of a specific filesystem: ufsdump on solaris, xfsdump,...).
About the wrong permissions, I notice the same, but never had
problems before, because I use gnutar instead of dump as the backup
program. Tar needs a directory ('/').
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