Hi

I'm new to Amanda and am having problems working out why one of our 
backups is failing.

We are trying to backup /var on one of our machines using dump and 
were initially getting lots of bread and lseek errors.  I read that 
this was due to the disk being written to as the backup was being 
done - is that correct?

I thought that using tar instead of dump may overcome this problem or 
at least would allow us to exclude directories that were being 
written.  I have changed the config to use tar am now seeing failures 
which I believe are due to the client being unable get an estimate -
 "missing result for /dev/sda7 in debussy.eu.ntt.net response".  
There is no size for /dev/sda7 in the sendsize file. 

Can anyone shed any light as to why it's failing? - apologies if I'm 
asking the obvious...

Thanks
Caroline


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