--On January 31, 2007 10:52:54 AM -0800 James Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it possible for amanda to automatically fail backup jobs of directories specified in the disklist with "dump" dumptypes (as opposed to gtar)? A "dump" of a directory completes successfully even though the dump utilitity is meant for filesystems. For me at least, we can not restore from such backups.
This is totally dependant upon the client OS behavior. AMANDA actually doesn't know much about the individual dump, tar, gtar, smbtar, etc program that it invokes to get it's work done. If your dump binary misbehaves and exits cleanly when given a directory AMANDA can't tell that something went askew.
Dump failing is the expected behavior on a directory....exactly what it does when it fails depends on the client OS, and particular dump utility involved.
It might be that your dump is failing and indicating as such but that AMANDA isn't understanding it correctly on your client OS. It'd be very helpful to have all of those details. Specific versions of AMANDA (client, and server), OS (and distro if Linux) and version of dump.
Thanks, JB _________________________________________________________________________ ___________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html
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