On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:30:12PM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Christoph wrote:
>
> >
> >2.) the main reason for the error above:
> >you are trying to use dump to backup the subdirectory /home/mysql.
> >Dump is designed to work on complete devices, like /dev/hda1 or so,
> >it can not do what you as
Christoph wrote:
2.) the main reason for the error above:
you are trying to use dump to backup the subdirectory /home/mysql.
Dump is designed to work on complete devices, like /dev/hda1 or so,
it can not do what you ask it for, and exactly that it is telling you.
easy solution:
use tar to dum
Looks like you are trying to tell dump to dump a subdirectory rather than a
volume/partition ?
I assume /home/mysql is not a mount point for a drive but a sub-dir on a
paritiion.
Change your disklist entry (DLE) to be the name of a drive.
On my machine an example of one drive would be:
In my di
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:21:52AM -0800, Yan Seiner enlightened us:
> I've set up amanda as best as I know how
>
> amcheck reports everything is OK. Permissions, etc. all seem OK.
>
> But when I try to run amdump I get:
>
> FAIL dumper localhost /home/mysql 20051119 0 [/sbin/dump returned
Check /tmp/amanda/sendbackup* logs on the client for more details.
Dump backups whole filesystems only. I think you should use tar. tar works with
subdirectories. You can include/exclude directories. Change dumptype entry in
disklist file to use tar.
Paddy
On 11/19/05, Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTE
