Failed/strange dump report - newbie question
Hi all... I checked the FAQ-o-matic (now that it's up and running again!! Thanks to whomever did that!) and I didn't see anything pertaining to my problem... I'm getting this message in my report: FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS: /-- in-db2.unt /var/www lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1] sendbackup: start [in-db2.unterlaw.com:/var/www level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/sbin/restore -f... - sendbackup: info end ? You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory sendbackup: error [/sbin/dump returned 1] \ /-- in-db2.unt /etc lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1] sendbackup: start [in-db2.unterlaw.com:/etc level 0] sendbackup: info BACKUP=/sbin/dump sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/sbin/restore -f... - sendbackup: info end ? You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory sendbackup: error [/sbin/dump returned 1] \ What is the dumpdates file? How do I rectify this? Thanks and have a great day... rap Rebecca A. Pakish Systems Administrator Unterberg & Associates, P.C. (219) 736-5579 ext. 184
Re: Failed/strange dump report - newbie question
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 at 9:58am, Rebecca Pakish wrote > /-- in-db2.unt /var/www lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1] *snip* > ? You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory > What is the dumpdates file? How do I rectify this? You are using dump -- dump only does incrementals on entire filesystems (i.e. entries in /etc/mtab). But /var/www isn't its own filesystem. To do subdirectories, you need to use GNUtar. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
