On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 22:43 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Lindsay Haisley <fmouse AT fmp DOT com> wrote:
> > I have a DLE in my disklist which specifies a dump of /dev/sda1 on a
> > client box.  /dev/sda1 is the /boot partition and is generally not
> > mounted unless I'm doing something such as installing a new kernel.
> > What amandad on the client system is apparently doing is looking
> > at /etc/fstab, which contains a noauto entry for /dev/sda1 so that it
> > can be mounted easily, and then backing up /boot which is the mountpoint
> > for /dev/sda1.  /boot contains only a couple of placeholder files of no
> > consequence.
> 
> amandad's not looking at fstab, AFAIK,

Well fstab is the only data structure on the box that relates /dev/sda1
to /boot, which is what gets backed up willy-nilly.  It has to be
referenced _somewhere_ in the process!

>  and certainly isn't going to
> mount anything.  If you want to do this, you should either use DUMP
> for that partition, or just mount it (read-only, if you'd like) so
> Amanda can back it up.

Pre-mounting is probably the way to go here.

>   If you're feeling really excited to spend some
> time, you could write a gtar "wrapper" that mounts the fs for the
> duration of the backup, then unmounts it..

Been there, done that (for other problems).  I think I'll let this one
pass <grin>.

Thanks.

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