The disklist was in my first email to the group, but here it is again:
  builder1.mydomain.com  /boot   hard-disk-dump
  builder1.mydomain.com  /       hard-disk-dump

Ian asked (in another email) for a "FAILED DUMP SUMMARY" section to
explained what happened, as well as my /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amdump.1

In the report, at the top,  I do see:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  builder1.mydomain.com  /  lev 0  FAILED [disk /, all estimate failed]

My amdump.1 appears in /usr/adm/amanda/ and it's big.... so I used a
pastebin site, as I don't know what parts are relevant.  
Please see: http://pastebin.ca/1072527 
In that file I do see the same 'FAILED' message above.

Searching the web for 'amanda all estimate failed' has turned up many
hits, but few fixes.  Is this a broad error, or could some fix for it go
in the FAQ?


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 11:49 +0200, Andres Moya wrote:
> post your disklist file strings corresponding to server. and /etc/fstab.
> difficult to say. what is error reported by amcheck? dump more likely
> work with deices names, while tar with mounted paths.
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 00:09 -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
> > 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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