Looks like you are trying to tell dump to dump a subdirectory rather than a
volume/partition ?

I assume /home/mysql is not a mount point for a drive but a sub-dir on a
paritiion.

Change your disklist entry (DLE) to be the name of a drive.

On my machine an example of one drive would be:

In my disklist:

ncti103 sd2g comp-user 2


>From my Unix "df" command:

/dev/sd2g     8258270   562030   7283326     7%    /data9

Scott...

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Yan Seiner
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 12:22 PM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: newbie Q: DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.


I've set up amanda as best as I know how....

amcheck reports everything is OK.  Permissions, etc. all seem OK.

But when I try to run amdump I get:

FAIL dumper localhost /home/mysql 20051119 0 [/sbin/dump returned 1]
 sendbackup: start [localhost:/home/mysql level 0]
 sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump
 sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/sbin/restore -f... -
 sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
 sendbackup: info end
 |   DUMP: You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a
subdirectory
 |   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
 sendbackup: error [/sbin/dump returned 1]
INFO taper tape SeinerHome02 kb 0 fm 0 [OK]
FINISH driver date 20051119 time 81.367

Any ideas on where to start?  I don't want to clutter the list with
long files.... So where do I need to look?  Or what should I provide
to the list so you can advise?

Thanks,

--Yan