--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:38:46 -0500 Yu Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks again, Gene and Frank! > > Yeah, my tar is fine, it's 1.13-25. I installed amanda from rpms. > So according to Frank, since /var and /var/spool/mail are on different > diskes, tar shouldn't cross them, right? Since Amanda calls tar with the --one-file-system option, it won't follow links across partition boundaries. Dump is restriceted to a single partition as well. It's something you have to keep in mind with Aamnda, a single DLE of / won't backup your entire machine if you have multiple disks and/or partitions. Frank > > Best > 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 >> >> > >> >> > 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? >> >> > > -- > > =========================================== > Yu Chen > Howard Hughes Medical Institute > Chemistry Building, Rm 182 > University of Maryland at Baltimore County > 1000 Hilltop Circle > Baltimore, MD 21250 > > phone: (410)455-6347 > (410)455-2718 > fax: (410)455-1174 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > =========================================== > > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
