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