On Aug 15, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:03:44PM -0500, Jack O'Connell wrote:

* Jack O'Connell <joconne AT alcf.anl DOT gov> [20080815 14:23]:

When I try to backup a single file with Amanda it fails stating that

it is not a directory.  I've seen examples of single file backups, so

I'm sure it's possible.  Is there something I need to specify in the

DLE or DUMPTYPE to allow this to succeed?

? gtar: /gpfs/home/acherry/acceptance_tests/ft-sm-5/test1.out: Cannot

chdir: Not a directory

? gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

sendbackup: error [dump (30959) /bin/tar returned 2]

/dir/myfile

blah /dir {

...

 include "./myfile"

...

}

Thank you.  I am somewhat new to this.  Could you be a little more  

specific.  Is this a dumptype entry?

On Aug 15, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:

A little of both, dumptype and DLE.  Dumptypes are named and reusable
in multiple DLEs.  So if you were backing up audio files from multiple
locations you might define a dumptype as:

define dumptype AUDIO {
user-tar
include list append "./*.mp3"
}

and make several DLEs using the AUDIO dumptype.

An alternative in the disklist file is to use the {...} syntax,
to customize a DLE with various dumptype properties.  That is
what Jean-Francois was suggesting.

When you do this you create a unique, unnamed dumptype.  As it
has no name, that new dumptype can not be used by other DLEs.

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Thanks,

Jack O'Connell

ALCF - Storage

(630)252-3610

joconne AT alcf.anl DOT gov