On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:40, Frank Smith 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

I didn't give that much thought because this list looks almost bogus.  
I've tried to do similar operations to expand disk space here while 
figuring out howto get the data moved to a larger partition, and 
linux seems to be able to get fooled in this regard, so I would have 
had to mount the second "/var" as "/var2" or some such work around.  
And I need to make a transition to yet another bigger disk here as I 
have 2Gb /root at 99% & its already been moved from hda to hdd when 
1Gb was a bottleneck.  120Gb drive wanted, cheap. :)

>>>> > 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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