--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:35:32 -0500 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT
verizon DOT net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:13, Yu Chen wrote:
>> Thanks, Gene
>>
>> Think that might be the problem. I will try it tonight.
>>
>> So you mean by "dump", it should backup everything under /var
>> including /var/spool/mail? But it didn't happen on my system, the
>> "dump" didn't back it up. That's why I added the entry.
>>
>> Chen
>
> No, by dump, I meant the program 'dump', as opposed to the program
> 'tar' (usually gnutar, and it needs to be at least version 1.13-19,
> plain old 1.13 won't do, its busted, get 1.13-25 from alpha.gnu.org's
> ftp site)
>
> tar should be able to do this, no problem, although if you leave the
> email agent running full time (I do, I'm on dsl) then its every so
> often scans of your mailbox at your ISP might occasionally cause a
> "file changed while we read it" message from tar if its updateing the
> mail spool while tar is reading it.
>
> However, since you have /var in the disklist, and tar traverses all
> subdirs below the named one, there must be a more fundamental
> problem, possibly related to permissions. You did configure and
> build amanda as the user 'amanda' didn't you? And then become root
> before installing her?
>
>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> 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
Notice that /var/spool/mail is a seperate partion than /var. Dump
and tar (with the options Amanda calls it with) does not cross
filesytems, so a backup of /var on your machine will not backup
/var/spool/mail.
Frank
>>> >
>>> > 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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