Re: can't backup a disk?

Thanks again, Gene and Frank!

Yeah, my tar is fine, it's 1.13-25. I installed amanda from rpms. 
So according to Frank, since /var and /var/spool/mail are on different 
diskes, tar shouldn't cross them, right? 

Best 
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
> >> >
> >> >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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