>... Several people in the office have upgraded their machines to
>Debian Woody and Amanda no longer backs them up. An example of the error
>message in the daily mail report is as follows:
>...
>? You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory
As has been discussed in this mailing list in the past few days, some
new versions of Linux dump do not allow subdirectories of mount points
to be backed up. The latest adds the feature back, but only partially
and not enough for general Amanda use.
According to Bernhard Erdmann just yesterday:
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.
Why are you trying to do that in the first place? Dump is usually
just used for entire file systems. If you want to do subdirectories,
you usually switch to GNU tar.
>Owain
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
