Hi amanda-users,

I am new to Amanda, and I am experiencing problems backing up a
subdirectory.
I am able to back up the /home or /var directory, but I can't back up their
subdirectories like
/vav/new or /home/admin

I am using Red Hat 7.1 and Amanda 2.4.2p2

I am pasting the dead.letter report:

These dumps were to tape DailyIncremental003.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: DailyIncremental002.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  localhost  /var/np/ lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Daily
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:00
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:01
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Output Size (meg)          15.4       15.4        0.0
Original Size (meg)        15.4       15.4        0.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)     --         --         --
Filesystems Dumped            1          1          0
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)     27106.5    27106.5        --

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
Tape Size (meg)            15.4       15.4        0.0
Tape Used (%)               0.1        0.1        0.0
Filesystems Taped             1          1          0
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  7418.1     7418.1        --

^L
FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/-- localhost  /var/np/ lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1]
sendbackup: start [localhost:/var/np/ level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/sbin/restore -f... -
sendbackup: info end
? You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory
sendbackup: error [/sbin/dump returned 1]
\--------^L
NOTES:
  planner: Adding new disk localhost:/var/np/.
  taper: tape DailyIncremental003 kb 15808 fm 1 [OK]

^L
DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
-------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
localhost    /home       0   15776  15776   --    0:0127099.9   0:027416.6
localhost    /var/np/    0 FAILED ---------------------------------------

(brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thank you,
Julien

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