On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:17:49PM -0800, Dierk Polzin wrote:
> I have an SGI IRIX system of four machines with 250+
> gig of drives to backup..
>
> I installed Amanda --with-gnutar
> ./configure --with-gnutar=/usr/freeware/bin/gtar
> --disable-libtool --
> with-user=backup --with-group=998 --with-owner=backup
> --with-
> amandahosts
>
looks OK
> But now I am not able to have subdirectories backed up
> monsoon /data1/peter lev 0 FAILED [disk
> /data1/peter offline on
> monsoon?]
> monsoon /data1/nick lev 0 FAILED [disk
> /data1/nick offline on
> monsoon?]
> monsoon /data1/billie lev 0 FAILED [disk
> /data1/billie offline
> on
> monsoon?]
>
> I was reading in the SYSTEM.NOTES for IRIX 6
> If you have xfs filesystems to back up, amanda will
> pick xfsdump automatically.
>
don't worry, this doesn't apply for tar.
> Is there anyway around this catch 22 to use GNUtar
> rather then dump so the subdirectories on my big
> drives can be backed up.
>
This should depend only on the dump type you specify in
the disklist and the dumptype definition in amanda.conf.
There is some debugging hints in the FAQ. The first look
should go into the debugging files under /tmp/amanda.
Please provide them here.
Ciao
Dietmar
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