yOn Thu, 9 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a new laptop with dual boot (Win98 and SuSE Linux 7.0). I'm
> trying to backup this client with amanda version 2.4.1p1. The linux
> side
> itself is working excellent; but I would also like to backup the /win
> partition where the windows file system is mounted. I get the
> following
> message in sendsize.debug:
>
> ...
> calculating for amname '/win', dirname '/win'
> sendsize: getting size via dump for /win level 0
> sendsize: running "/sbin/dump 0sf 1048576 - /dev/hda1"
> running /usr/amanda/libexec/killpgrp
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Nov 9 00:05:56 2000
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda1 (/win) to standard output
> DUMP: Label: none
> /dev/hda1: Bad magic number in super-block while opening filesystem
> .....
> (no size line match in above dump output)
> .....
> asking killpgrp to terminate
> sendsize: pid 4458 finish time Thu Nov 9 00:05:57 2000
>
> Looks like the vfat filesystem is not recognized by amanda. Is there a
> way to get this working?
dump doesn't support vfat, which you'd expect (dump has to be intimate
with the physical filesystem, and linux dump is written for ext2). You
can still use tar, though, which is explained in the docs.
--
Nate Eldredge
HMC CS Staff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
