I am trying to backup a remote host's /boot and / mount points.
I don't have a tape drive, so I am backing up host to a disk on the
server.
When I use hard-disk-dump, /boot seems to backup fine, but / doesn't.
When I use hard-disk-tar, both backup.
What's wrong with my hard-disk-dump?
 
Server is debian etch using amanda-2.5.1p1
Client is gentoo using amanda-2.5.2_p1-r3
Both systems use reiserfs file systems.
The backup is called DailySet1.
I configured the following files in /etc/amanda/DailySet1:
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disklist
------------------
builder1.mydomain.com        /       hard-disk-dump
builder1.mydomain.com        /boot   hard-disk-dump
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amanda.conf
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org      "DailySet1"
mailto   "joe AT foo DOT com"
dumpuser "backup"
dumporder "sssS"
taperalgo first 
usetimestamps true
displayunit "k"
netusage  600 Kbps
dumpcycle 14 days
tapecycle 14
runspercycle 1
runtapes 1
etimeout 300
dtimeout 1800
ctimeout 30
tapebufs 20
tpchanger "chg-multi"
changerfile "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/changer.conf"
tapetype HARD-DISK
labelstr "^DailySet1[0-9][0-9]*$"
define dumptype hard-disk-dump {
    comment "Back up to hard disk instead of tape - using dump"
    holdingdisk no
    index yes
    priority high
}
define dumptype hard-disk-tar {
    hard-disk-dump
    comment "Back up to hard disk instead of tape - using tar"
    program "GNUTAR"
    priority high
    index yes
    dumpcycle 1
    exclude list "/etc/amanda/exclude-list"
    compress NONE
}
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changer.conf
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multieject 0
gravity 0
needeject 0
ejectdelay 0
statefile /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/changer-status
firstslot 1
lastslot 14
slot 1  file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape01
slot 2  file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape02
slot 3  file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape03
slot 4  file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape04
slot 5  file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape05
slot 6  file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape06
slot 7  file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape07
slot 8  file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape08
slot 9  file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape09
slot 10 file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape10
slot 11 file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape11
slot 12 file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape12
slot 13 file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape13
slot 14 file:/amandatapes/amandadumps/tape14
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I created my tapes with the following
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su - backup
touch /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapelist
mkdir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1
chown -R backup:backup /amandatapes/amandadumps/
chmod -R 770 /amandatapes/amandadumps/
for ((x=1;x<=14;x+=1)); 
do  
   num=`printf "%02d" $x`
   mkdir -p /amandatapes/amandadumps/tape${num}/data
   chown -R backup:backup /amandatapes/amandadumps/tape${num}
   chmod -R 770 /amandatapes/amandadumps/tape${num}
   amlabel DailySet1 DailySet1${num} slot ${num}
done
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I had to create areas for the log files
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mkdir -p /usr/adm/amanda
touch /usr/adm/amanda/amdump
mkdir -p /usr/adm/amanda/curinfo
mkdir -p /usr/adm/amanda/index
mkdir /usr/adm/amanda/amdump
chown -R backup:backup /usr/adm 
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Test config with amcheck, everything looks good
------------------------------------------------
/usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1
  Amanda Tape Server Host Check
  -----------------------------
  slot 5: read label `DailySet105', date `20080714181357'
  cannot overwrite active tape DailySet105
  slot 6: read label `DailySet106', date `X'
  NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
  Tape DailySet106 label ok
  Server check took 0.109 seconds

  Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
  --------------------------------
  Client check: 1 host checked in 0.015 seconds, 0 problems found

  (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1p1)

When trying to use hard-disk-dump, the the logs show both / and /boot
mentioned in:
/var/log/amanda/server/DailySet1/amtrmidx.20080714181401.debug
But the directory _ is empty and is empty for /:
  /usr/adm/amanda/index/buildlinux2.eng.msli.com/_
and the directory for /boot has gz files:
  /usr/adm/amanda/index/buildlinux2.eng.msli.com/_boot/



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