> Looking back over them, there's one thing I see missing. What happens if > you try to back up a local disk on backup? I.e. remove the NT share > entries in the disklist, but put somethink like 'backup /etc user-tar'. > This will narrow it down to being either a samba issue or an amanda client > issue.
The machine could back itself up just fine, though after careful checking, I think I've found the problem! For some reason, when I changed the disklist entry to 'localhost' instead of 'backup' it went through w/out complaint. This could not be a DNS issue because it's running a local bind.. why would this problem manifest itself like that?? > No, you don't have to mount the share first. But, according to some quick > experiments I just did here, you can *not* back up a subdirectory of a > share. You *must* back up the share itself. If all you want is > /sys/users, you'll need to share that directory explicitly. But, again, > this isn't the main problem, b/c you're not even getting that far. Thank you so much for your help! I'm sharing directories explicitly and about to run my first for-real amdump. Kindest regards, Michael Blinn
