On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:30:12PM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Christoph wrote:
> 
> >
> >2.) the main reason for the error above:
> >you are trying to use dump to backup the subdirectory /home/mysql.
> >Dump is designed to work on complete devices, like /dev/hda1 or so,
> >it can not do what you ask it for, and exactly that it is telling you.
> >
> >easy solution:
> >
> >use tar to dump your directory, add in your amada.conf in the dumptype
> >for that directory the line
> >
> >program "GNUTAR"
> 
> 
> Thanks everyone.  That in fact was the problem....
> 
> amanda is now working fine.  Unfortunately, my tape drive seems to have 
> died....  :-(
> 
> At least I got one good backup out of it....

Though it will be hard to recover without a tape drive. :)

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