Hi again,

Thanks to everyone who replied to this.

I have added /dev/sda7 to my disklist file - it seems to be happy with that.

I'll report back after my next amdump run.

Thanks again.

Regards

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Linn [mailto:celinn AT mtu DOT edu]
Sent: 12 November 2002 18:55
To: Kevin Passey
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Should I backup /dev/sda7 which is - / on my system


On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:32:43PM -0000, Kevin Passey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been backing this disk up - but since I've updated by RH7.2 install
> from RHN I get the following message.
> 
> ERROR: dilmom: [could not access sda7 (sda7): No such file or directory]
> 
> Should I be backing up this disk - I would have thought so - but now
amanda
> will not recognise it.
> 
> Can anybody point me in the right direction?

are you using tar to do your archiving, or dump?  if you are using tar,
then i have seen that the "/" filesystem does not have a /etc/fstab
entry in RH starting right around 7.[12], which means that tar has no
concept of what to archive (i am fairly sure that amanda uses the local
fstab to translate a filesystem path for disk devices when it is using
tar).  i got around this by simply using "/" as the filesystem in the
amanda disklist entry, as opposed to the disk device (/dev/sd07 in your
case).

> Thanks
> 
> Kevin 

sincerely,

chris

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