On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 at 2:06pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I checked the sendsize.*.debug file. It looks like that amanda didn't > translate the filesystem names to the right dirname. > > A working case will be like: > calculating for amname '/dev/sda1' dirname '/boot' > > the failed case looks like > calculating for amname '/dev/sda6' dirname '/dev/sda6' > > How could I get around with this?
You need to apply the advfs.patch available at <http://www.amanda.org/patches.html> to the 2.4.2p2 source and reinstall. > Can I put "/" instead of "/dev/sda6" in my disklist file? I am > hesitating to do this because I am not sure if I will include > everything ( for example /home which is a separate partition) by > using just /. What I intended to do is only backuping the root > partition. Yes, you can do this. Amanda runs the backup program (either dump or tar) in the appropriate way such that it stays within a filesystem. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
