On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:00:48PM -0700, Scott Petler wrote:
> 
> I have a backup to disk running now.  I did the following:
> 1) amadmin DailySet1 force localhost
> 2) changed disklist from:
> 
> /home/photos
> /home/scottp
> /home/travis
> 
> to:
> 
> hda1
> 
> 
> I would still like to be able to select directories, not sure
> why this made it start working....
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 07:18:07PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> > Scott Petler wrote:
> > > I'm trying to configure amanda 2.4.4 to backup to a spare
> > > drive, but can't quite get it to work.  Where is -1 KB coming from?
> > 
> > Have a look in the debug files in /tmp/amanda.
> > There is a file sendsize.datestamp.debug that contains the exact
> > command used to estimate the disk.  And the what the program
> > returned.  Is there a strange error message?
> > 

bottom posting makes it easier to follow a thread IMHO.

A guess, your dumptype specifies using the dump program which only
does complete file systems.  To do directories you must use a dumptype
specifying gnutar is the backup program.

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