Looks like changing the dumptype to gnutar might work. amcheck doesn't
complain anymore so we'll see how the backup goes and then restoring a
file..
I'll also checkout the samba option as well as it might make things
'easier'
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Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
+44 (0)1865 842300
Paul Bijnens wrote:
>
> Martin hepworth wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to backup the snap server by mounting thing via nfs on the
> > amanda server itself and then simply backup the nfs mount as a normal
> > local filesystem.
> >
> > However when I do this is get the following error...
> >
> > /caxton lev 0 FAILED [disk /caxton offline on dns?]
>
> Are you using dumptype DUMP? You should use GNUTAR.
> Just a possibility.
> You didn't specify much detail of your configuration...
>
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