On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:30:13AM -0500, John R. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> >Is amanda capable of backing up mounted filessystems?
[snip]
> And the answer will be "yes", but with caveats. Any backup program is
> going to have issues with data changing out from under it. GNU tar is
> probably best at it because it goes through the same OS calls that normal
> applications do.
I just learned (the hard way) what one of the caveats is (and I *SHOULD*
have known, its so bloody obvious). If you
"mount -v -t nfs THE_TOBE_MOUNTED_IP:/backup /SOMEMOUNTPOINT/backup"
then you must place in the file "disklist"
BACKUPSERVERIP /SOMEMOUNTPOINT/backup root-tar
it will NOT work using
BACKUPSERVERIP /SOMEMOUNTPOINT root-tar
Note, this is not a limitation, its just the way "mount" works.
jobst
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