Re: *OS X* disk offline error

2004-06-01 Thread gen2
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

disk offline error

2004-05-31 Thread gen2
Hi all, I have a very functional amanda 2.4.3 LAN backup system that I'm having one problem with: I can't seem to back up any partitions, only directories and files. If I use disklist specs like this node1 /home standard I get a proper backup, but if I use node1 /dev/sda9 standard I get an

Re: disk offline error

2004-05-31 Thread gen2
/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