Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-04 Thread Paul Bijnens
James Marcinek wrote: OK I got you. Could I still add options, enclosing them with them within the '{}' fields (eg exlcude "/var/holding" ) servername /var root-tar { exclude "/var/holding" } Note that the braces syntax REQUIRES that "a line break must follow the left curly bracket" (from the amand

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 at 8:50pm, James Marcinek wrote > OK I got you. Could I still add options, enclosing them with them within the > '{}' fields (eg exlcude "/var/holding" ) > > servername /var root-tar { exclude "/var/holding" } > > or can I only do this in the amanda.conf. You can do it in dis

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread James Marcinek
OK I got you. Could I still add options, enclosing them with them within the '{}' fields (eg exlcude "/var/holding" ) servername /var root-tar { exclude "/var/holding" } or can I only do this in the amanda.conf. Thanks, James > > I've patterned the diskfile showed somthing like the example: >

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 at 8:21pm, James Marcinek wrote > > > You just put the directory name in place of the device, e.g. > > > > domino / $DUMPTYPE > > OK but if it's the / partion, will it also try to backup the other filesystems > (such /var, /usr, etc) or do I have to define an exclusion list?

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread James Marcinek
> You just put the directory name in place of the device, e.g. > > domino / $DUMPTYPE OK but if it's the / partion, will it also try to backup the other filesystems (such /var, /usr, etc) or do I have to define an exclusion list? The examples I've patterned the diskfile showed somthing like the

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 at 1:30pm, James Marcinek wrote > Here's the version of amanda on both the client and the server: > > Client amanda version: > rpm -qa |grep amanda > amanda-client-2.4.2p2-4 > amanda-2.4.2p2-4 I believe that's an affected version. Try upgrading to 2.4.4p4 from www.amanda.org

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread James Marcinek
Here's the version of amanda on both the client and the server: Client amanda version: rpm -qa |grep amanda amanda-client-2.4.2p2-4 amanda-2.4.2p2-4 Server amanda version: rpm -qa |grep amanda amanda-server-2.4.3-4 amanda-2.4.3-4 amanda-client-2.4.3-4 As I mentioned in my previous reply, the c

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread James Marcinek
The server's running RH9 and the client is RHWS 2.1. I'm making my backups based upon the 'dumptypes' defined in the amanda.conf example that was provided to me. The only 'dump' dumptype that I see is for a full dump. What is the best recommended practice and could anyone show me examples of 'dump

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 at 10:11pm, James Marcinek wrote > Finally doing the backups. This is my first run and it's on a client. I'm having > a problem backup up the / partition (/dev/hde5). Here's the line in the logfile: > > FAIL planner domino /dev/hde5 20041102 0 [disk /dev/hde5 offline on domino?

Re: Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-02 Thread Frank Smith
--On Tuesday, November 02, 2004 22:11:12 + James Marcinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Finally doing the backups. This is my first run and it's on a client. I'm having > a problem backup up the / partition (/dev/hde5). Here's the line in the logfile: > > FAIL planner dom

Problems backup up hde5 (/)

2004-11-02 Thread James Marcinek
Hello everyone, Finally doing the backups. This is my first run and it's on a client. I'm having a problem backup up the / partition (/dev/hde5). Here's the line in the logfile: FAIL planner domino /dev/hde5 20041102 0 [disk /dev/hde5 offline on domino?] Here's my disklist entry: ## domino serv