On Tuesday 25 January 2005 21:34, Nick Danger wrote:
>Thanks for the help with the previous problem, I have it backing up
> all the non reiserfs partitions just fine now.
>
>How do I get it to back up reiserfs partitions? I tried root-tar,
> and comp-root-tar  in disklist and neither worked.
>
>FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>  tesla.hack / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2]
>  tesla.hack / lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]
>
>
>Im showing dump error messages in the debug logs. Do I need options
> in amanda.conf to make it use tar instead of dump?
>
>-Nick

More than likely.  It would be better if amanda was reconfigured and 
rebuilt with the actual path to the (g/gnu)tar built in.

What version of tar do you have? tar --version should spit it out.


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