>and I do not want to install amanda client on it (if possible).
>I have another reason, as the OS on that firewall is oldish I want to
>upgrade it: wipe it and install fresh. I dont want to go to install
Wow, a machine being a firewall and activated as a NFS server, this is
a bad idea, security wise.
What does amcheck say regarding that?
And of course if you wanna back-up /perterson, it will back-up all
files native to /perterson, BUT NOT the things that are mounted into
it. So basically you will get /peterson, /peterson/etc, /peterson/bin,
... but no file from /peterson/etc, no file from /peterson/bin, ...
Which is kind of logic, it does not descended the mounted file
systems, or else when you backup / you would end-up grabbing all the
hierachy of all the mounted disks...
I beleive that is the argument --one-file-system of the command tar.
Now if you plan to use dump, this is completely hopeless as dump works
by disk block and knows nothing about the file system.
Olivier
