On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 11:18:54AM -0500, Edwin Chiu wrote:
> > > running /software/amanda/libexec/killpgrp
> > > Only level 0 dumps are allowed on a subdirectory
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > That's your problem. From the looks of things, /software is *not* its own
> > partition, and dump can only do incrementals of partitions. You'll have
> > to either
> >
> > a) repartition to put /software in its own partition (ick), or
> > b) tell amanda to use tar to back up /software.
>
> Why is it that dump 0.4b15 allows dumps of directories that are not it's own
> partitions?
> Are those dumps still good?
Linux' dump 0.4b20 still allows dumping of subdirectories. However, it
does not allow the "u" flag (update) with subdirs of partitions
anymore, because it would break /etc/dumpdates' syntax. Read dump's
ChangeLog carefully.
Amanda calls dump with "u" if you set "record yes" in
amanda.conf. Probably you do not want to do full dumps every day, so
you might switch to tar for subdirectories.
