On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:42, Yu Chen wrote:
>Hello, I have a client with diskes like this:
>/dev/hda1  /boot
>/dev/hda2  /
>/dev/hda3  /var
>/dev/hda5  /var/spool/mail
>
>before, the amanda works fine with the first three diskes, recently,
> I added /var/spool/mail to the disklist, but amanda failed to back
> it up, gave out message:
>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>  hostname /var/spool/mail lev 0 FAILED [disk /var/spool/mail
> offline?]
>
>I don't know where to look into, thanks for any advices!
>
>Chen

Are you using tar, which can do a subdir, or dump, which does the 
whole partition or nothing?

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