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Re: tar vs. dump for / backup?

2008-07-15 01:01:49
Subject: Re: tar vs. dump for / backup?
From: Ian Turner <ian AT zmanda DOT com>
To: "johns AT msli DOT com" <johns AT msli DOT com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:09:59 -0400
On Monday 14 July 2008 22:01:21 johns AT msli DOT com wrote:
> 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?

Can you explain how you know that / doesn't work? To put it differently, what 
evidence has Amanda given you that there is a problem, besides the empty 
index dir?

--Ian

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