On Saturday 24 August 2002 17:58, Martin Schmidt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>it's me again.
>
>I get the error from amdump, that my
>disk /usr/local/etc is offline
>which is not the case.
>I tested a little bit around and found out, that I can backup all
> dirs on partitions with ext2 - filesystem, but I get always the
> following message when I try to backup something on a reiserfs:
>----------------------
>calculating for amname '/usr/local/etc', dirname '/usr/local/etc'
>sendsize: getting size via dump for /usr/local/etc level 0
>sendsize: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /usr/local/etc"
>running /usr/local/libexec/killpgrp
>/dev/sdd2: Bad magic number in super-block while opening
> filesystem DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
>.....

FYI, dump is filesystem specific and I doubt if it even knows how to 
spell reiserfs let alone root around in its filespace.  Try tar 
instead, version 1.13-25 if you can find it.

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