On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 at 2:31pm, Santiago wrote

> amcheck passes fine. Amanda has permission to read this volume and can
> read it (I tried as amanda to read it).
> 
> I keep getting this error (from sendsize log):
> 
> time 0.847: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /r/amanda/b1"
> sendsize[8754]: time 0.847: running /usr/local/libexec/killpgrp
> sendsize[8754]: time 0.850:   DUMP: Cannot open /dev/i2o/hda1
> sendsize[8754]: time 0.850:   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
> 
> man dump (snippet)
>    files-to-dump is either a mountpoint of a filesystem or a list of 
> files and directories to be backed up as a subset of a filesystem.
> ____________
> 
> /dev/i2o/hda1 is a device. I don't have it listed in either amanda.conf
> or disklist. It is the device that is mounted as /r on this system. I 
> don't know why dump is trying to open the device and not read the 
> directory.
> 
> Posibilities - this directory is on the holding disk '/r/amanda', 
> however, I have the 'holdingdisk no' in the dumptype definition.
> 
> Ideas? Please ..  .

If what you are trying to backup is not an entire filesystem (as it sounds 
like this isn't), then you must use tar and not dump.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University