post your disklist file strings corresponding to server. and /etc/fstab.
difficult to say. what is error reported by amcheck? dump more likely
work with deices names, while tar with mounted paths.
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 00:09 -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
> On Monday 14 July 2008 22:01:21 johns AT msli DOT com wrote:
> > I am trying to backup a remote host's /boot and / mount points.
> > I don't have a tape drive, so I am backing up host to a disk on the
> > server.
> > When I use hard-disk-dump, /boot seems to backup fine, but / doesn't.
> > When I use hard-disk-tar, both backup.
> > What's wrong with my hard-disk-dump?
> 
> Can you explain how you know that / doesn't work? To put it differently, what 
> evidence has Amanda given you that there is a problem, besides the empty 
> index dir?
> 
> --Ian