The server's running RH9 and the client is RHWS 2.1.

I'm making my backups based upon the 'dumptypes' defined in the amanda.conf
example that was provided to me. The only 'dump' dumptype that I see is for a
full dump. What is the best recommended practice and could anyone show me
examples of 'dumps' that are not just full-dump types.

If the directory approach is better I want to make sure that I have the format
of the disklist correct:

system  directory dumpname??(<- kind of confused about this) { put definition
and includes, excludes,et here}

Can someone give me an example and breakdown?

Thanks,

James

Joshua Baker-LePain &lt;jlb17 AT duke DOT edu&gt; wrote: 
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 at 10:11pm, James Marcinek wrote
> 
> > Finally doing the backups. This is my first run and it's on a client. I'm
having
> > a problem backup up the / partition (/dev/hde5). Here's the line in the
logfile:
> > 
> > FAIL planner domino /dev/hde5 20041102 0 [disk /dev/hde5 offline on domino?]
> 
> What OS and OS version is the client, and what version of amanda?  Also, 
> as someone pointed out, it makes a lot more sense (especially with tar) to 
> use directory names rather than device names.
> 
> I vaguely recall some versions of amanda having issues with root 
> partitions on Linux.  So, if you're running Linux, make sure you're 
> running the most recent version of amanda.
>