That sounds extrange to me. I am new to amanda, but I have been testing the program for two days now and I am backing up specific directories in all my servers without any problem. I back up /etc and /usr/local and /home in one server and /var and /etc and /home in another server all with the default dump utility and everything seems to be working fine, without error messages. And I have also recover files from all the directories without problem. And they are certanly not full file systems.
I do not have and answer for Travis question, but I think that there must be another answer, at least for RedHat 6.2. Sorry if I can not say more. Cheers Ana Maria On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 at 9:10am, Travis Rail wrote > > > Is there any way that Amanda can backup specific file directories? > > Every time I try to back up a single directory I get the following: > > > > mercury /var/qmail lev 0 FAILED [/sbin/dump returned 1] > > > For anything less than a full filesystem, you need to use GNUtar, not > dump. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University >
