Alert: This only occurs when I try and dump a root partition. Seems to
work fine on others.
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Eric Wadsworth wrote:
> I am trying to find why tar is failing. Here is information, if anyone has
> ideas:
>
> 'amadmin DailySet1 version' shows where GNUTAR is set:
> GNUTAR="/usr/bin/tar"
>
> I verified, and yes, tar is there.
>
> These are in the amanda.conf file:
>
> define dumptype global {
> comment "Global definitions"
> index yes
> }
>
> define dumptype root-tar {
> global
> program "GNUTAR"
> comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
> compress none
> index
> exclude list "/usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
> priority low
> }
>
> There is only one line in the disklist file:
>
> this.system.consys.com /dev/da0s1a root-tar
>
> this.system is the amanda host (has the tape drive). This partition is the
> root partition on the computer.
>
> There is no such file /usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar as specified in
> the definition of root-tar (See above), but I tried a dump with that line
> commented out, same result.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas! --- Eric
>
>
