--On Monday, December 15, 2003 14:30:06 -0800 Blake Swensen <blake AT pyramus
DOT com> wrote:
> I am somewhat a novice at this whole thing, but....
>
> I believe that Amanda will only back up complete filesystems in the same way
> that dump (ufsdump) does.
If you use GNU tar you can backup NFS-mounted filesystems. I do that to
backup parts of our NetApps.
>
> Try dumping your HU/UX file systems to a staging area on an nfs mounted drive
> and let Amanda back them up from there.
>
> You might run into issues (depending on your version of nfs) that will
> prevent dumps > 1GB being created.
>
> Blake
>
>
> Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>> Hello, all. I've got some HP/UX 11.11 and 11.00 that I want to back
>> up. However, I've run into some problems:
>>
>> 1) I can't find an Amanda client to install on 11.11 and 11.00 systems.
>> 2) I tried compiling, and failed. Someone sent me a patch, but I
>> haven't been able to get it working yet.
>>
>> So, I gave up (for the moment) trying to install the Amanda client on
>> the HP machines, and, instead, decided to
>> mount them via NFS from a Linux box with the full, functioning client.
>> However, I've got one problem that I just
>> can't figure out: amdump gets "/" just fine, however, stuff off my
>> mounted RAID ("/raid0") dies with the following:
>>
>> ursa SM5b-Z lev 0 FAILED [disk SM5b-Z offline on ursa?]
>>
>> Any idea on where I'm going astray?
I haven't used HPUX in many years, but I'm guessing you need to export the
filesystem with the equivilent of no_root_squash on Linux or root= on
Solaris, since by default root gets mapped to nobody on many OSs.
Frank
>>
>> Note that I can "ls", "du", etc., the directory just fine from the Linux
>> box.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ken D'Ambrosio
>> Sr. SysAdmin,
>> Xanoptix, Inc.
>>
>
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