>On another note, a different is working perfectly fine, except for one
>small issue. See, we aren't a 24 hour shop, so our systems are "live"
>when we do the backups. And some users don't log out. This one file
>gets written to constantly (/net/usercd/dsmith/.xsession-errors), so the
>backup fails because "the file changed while reading it", and it doesn't
>backup the system at all.
>
>Is there any way to ignore this error?
Hummm, I think I read that dump should ignore such an error (in that
article about stress testing back-up software). In any case GNU tar
ignore it for sure.
With GNU tar you could even decide to skip that very file, so it will
not bug your amanda reports.
Olivier
