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
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
/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