Just out of curiosity, why would you opt
to do it this way. Doesn't amanda provide
a way to do this client-server?
TIA
Nate Eldredge wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marvin W. Nachatelo wrote:
>
>
>> Can Amanda be used to backup an NFS mounted filesystem ? I have a
>> Network Appliance
>> box and have mounted the exported filesystem to a mount point on the
>> Amanda server
>> The Sun is running Solaris 7.
>
>
> Yes, it's working fine here. You just have to use tar. Obviously you
> can't use dump, because you don't have access to the raw disk (and even if
> you did, Solaris wouldn't have any idea what to do with it).
>
> Another hint: If you have snapshots enabled, you will probably want to
> exclude them (amanda documentation explains how to exclude directories).
>
>
>> The error :
>>
>> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>> sake /netapp1/test lev 0 FAILED [disk /netapp1/test offline on
>> sake?]
>>
>> Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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