On Tuesday 11 November 2003 11:38, Yu Chen 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?
>
>Best
>Chen
>
Thats correct, tar stays on the filesystem its started on for each 
invocation.

Installing amanda from rpms can at times be a problem child, and is 
why the majority of us use the tarballs.

>> 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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