--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:35:32 -0500 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:13, Yu Chen wrote: >> Thanks, Gene >> >> Think that might be the problem. I will try it tonight. >> >> So you mean by "dump", it should backup everything under /var >> including /var/spool/mail? But it didn't happen on my system, the >> "dump" didn't back it up. That's why I added the entry. >> >> Chen > > No, by dump, I meant the program 'dump', as opposed to the program > 'tar' (usually gnutar, and it needs to be at least version 1.13-19, > plain old 1.13 won't do, its busted, get 1.13-25 from alpha.gnu.org's > ftp site) > > tar should be able to do this, no problem, although if you leave the > email agent running full time (I do, I'm on dsl) then its every so > often scans of your mailbox at your ISP might occasionally cause a > "file changed while we read it" message from tar if its updateing the > mail spool while tar is reading it. > > However, since you have /var in the disklist, and tar traverses all > subdirs below the named one, there must be a more fundamental > problem, possibly related to permissions. You did configure and > build amanda as the user 'amanda' didn't you? And then become root > before installing her? > >> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:42, Yu Chen wrote: >>> > Hello, I have a client with diskes like this: >>> > /dev/hda1 /boot >>> > /dev/hda2 / >>> > /dev/hda3 /var >>> > /dev/hda5 /var/spool/mail Notice that /var/spool/mail is a seperate partion than /var. Dump and tar (with the options Amanda calls it with) does not cross filesytems, so a backup of /var on your machine will not backup /var/spool/mail. Frank >>> > >>> > before, the amanda works fine with the first three diskes, >>> > recently, I added /var/spool/mail to the disklist, but amanda >>> > failed to back it up, gave out message: >>> > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: >>> > hostname /var/spool/mail lev 0 FAILED [disk /var/spool/mail >>> > offline?] >>> > >>> > I don't know where to look into, thanks for any advices! >>> > >>> > Chen >>> >>> Are you using tar, which can do a subdir, or dump, which does the >>> whole partition or nothing? > > -- > Cheers, Gene > AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M > 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly > Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message > by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
