--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:38:46 -0500 Yu Chen <chen AT hhmi.umbc DOT
edu> wrote:
> 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?
Since Amanda calls tar with the --one-file-system option, it won't
follow links across partition boundaries. Dump is restriceted to a
single partition as well.
It's something you have to keep in mind with Aamnda, a single
DLE of / won't backup your entire machine if you have multiple disks
and/or partitions.
Frank
>
> 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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