That makes perfect sense, thanks. Basically, whatever version of dump lives on the target host is what defines capabilities in this regard. So still, I'd be limited to, say, ext2/3 filesystems if I tried to use linux dump. Unfortunately this works against solving my problem!
I'm trying to use amanda to back up mostly linux and bsd, which works great...but also have some winXP boxes (which I know I can backup using amanda/samba) and some OS X units. New question, same error: I've got xtar running on osx boxes, and it works well with amanda AFAICT. The only problem is that I get the "disk ... offline" error when trying to backup any files on mounted volumes (non-root drives). osx1 /Users standard Works fine osx1 /Volumes/hfs-mounted-part standard Gives the "disk offline" error (the hfs-mounted-part is a mounted/functioning hfs or hfs+ partition from an attached drive). The mounted external volume contains a mac OS9 partition, so I'm hoping to sweep all the backups using just amanda (lofty goal, that!! But so nice if it would work...) Thanks! On Tuesday 01 June 2004 07:26 am, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > 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). > > If the program you tell amanda to use for the backup is a version > of tar, then it can only backup files and directories. That is a > property of tar, not amanda. And of course, for there to be files > and directories, the partition must be mounted. > > If instead you tell amanda to use a version of dump, those programs > generally work at the device level (even when told to work on a > mount point) and should be able to backup umounted partitions.