Hi, Anton,

on Dienstag, 04. Mai 2004 at 09:23 you wrote to amanda-users:

AK> has someone tested amanda as client   (amanda-2.4.4p2) on Suse 9.1
AK> (kernel  2.6.4, tar 1.13.25) ?

AK> I have integrated a Suse 9.1 client into a running amanda installation.
AK> Amcheck found no error, but amdump reported:

AK> /-- FQDN / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2]
AK> sendbackup: start [FQDN:/ level 0]
AK> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
AK> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
AK> sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
AK> sendbackup: info end
AK> ? gtar: ./media/cdrecorder: Cannot savedir: No medium found
AK> ? gtar: ./media/floppy: Cannot savedir: No medium found
AK> ? gtar: ./media/cdrecorder: Warning: Cannot savedir: No medium found
AK> ? gtar: ./media/floppy: Warning: Cannot savedir: No medium found
AK> | gtar: ./dev/log: socket ignored
AK> ...

AK> | gtar: ./var/spool/postfix/public/showq: socket ignored
AK> | Total bytes written: 2355896320 (2.2GB, 11MB/s)
AK> ? gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
AK> sendbackup: error [/bin/tar returned 2]
AK> \--------

This has nothing to do with Suse x.y at all.
Backing up devicefiles won't work that way.

Exclude ./media and stuff like ./tmp, ./var/spool from your DLEs.

Or even better, just use DLEs like

/home
/usr

and such.

The directory /media just contains symbolic links to device-files, it
makes no sense to try to dump them ...

You can easily restore them from your OS-CDs if needed.

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at