> /dev/sda9 is NOT a mount point, its a descriptor only and will > probably fail forever. > > now, if that disk is mounted someplace, as in /mnt/sda9 on the machine > whose alias is node1, and it is mounted when amdump runs, it should > work like a champ.
Ok, what I'm experiencing lends that a lot of credence, but what sent me off in this direction was (from the amanda distribution, example disklist entries) # Dump Joe's NetBSD machine, with the mounted MS-DOS partition dumped # using tar. #joespc wd0a comp-root #joespc wd0e comp-user #joespc /msdos comp-user-tar which seems to imply that it's possible to back up unmounted partitions, and that would be really great! I've always been under the impression that this was amanda-possible somehow, but never have been able to make it happen. Seems like this would be the way to back up a partition regardless of formatting (like an HFS+ or NT part, which is really what I'm after).
