On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 at 10:57am, Kurt Yoder wrote

> sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: calculating for amname '/', dirname '/',
> spindle -1
> sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: getting size via dump for / level 0
> sendsize[7578]: time 0.020: calculating for device '/' with ''
> sendsize[7578]: time 0.022: running "/bin/dump 0Esf 1048576 - /"
> sendsize[7578]: time 0.023: running /usr/local/libexec/killpgrp
> sendsize[7578]: time 0.137: Usage: dump [-?CDVcgl -L[v] -a[v] -f[v]
> -h[dnv] -o[v] -r[dnv] -s[dnv] -t[nv] -T index1[, index2]] file(s)
> ..
*snip*

> Notice line 6 "Usage: " message. Perhaps dump is not acting the way
> amanda expects? Is this my problem? I had trouble getting gnu tar to
> compile, but maybe I should try again so I can use it instead of
> dump.

Yup, that's definitely the problem.  Is amanda picking the right dump for 
your filesystem?  You can tell by the output of ./configure (it might also 
be in the amandad*debug files -- I'm not sure).

tar is nice for being so cross platform.  If you can get that to go, it 
might be your better option.

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