Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 at 10:50am, Julien Boret wrote
> > I am new to Amanda, and I am experiencing problems backing up a
> > subdirectory.
> > I am able to back up the /home or /var directory, but I can't back up their
> > subdirectories like
> > /vav/new or /home/admin
> FAQ. /sbin/dump can only back up filesystems (i.e. entries in the fstab).
> To backup subdirectories, you need to specify 'program "GNUTAR"' in your
> dumptype.
Some versions of dump for Linux are capable of doing it. The problem,
as dump reported, is that it's not possible to update the dumpdates
file in that case (which strikes me as pretty reasonable).
It's still useful for backing up a smallish directory tree to CD-ROM,
however, which we do here weekly.
Cheers,
--
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