Hi Joshua: I tried to recompile amanda client to support xfsdump...and followed the four steps you mentioned below...for some reason, it still can not backup xfs volume on that client...so, I am wondering that something must be wrong when I was doing the recompiling...
Could you please give me a little more specific instructions about this? I really appreciate your help. Thanks a lot, Zhen Liu ------------------- > On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 at 10:30am, Zhen Liu wrote > > > I first checked that I have xfsdump installed in the box, then I > > started to run ./configure, make, make check, make install...and > > configured the amanda client...it seems like amanda can not recognize > > the xfs... > > First check to make sure that ./configure finds xfsdump: > > checking for xfsdump... /sbin/xfsdump > checking for xfsrestore... /sbin/xfsrestore > configure: warning: *** xfsdump causes the setuid-root rundump program to be enabled > configure: warning: *** to disable it, just #undef XFSDUMP in config/config.h ****I saw these when I was running ./configure... > Second, make sure you're doing the 'make install' as root, or the bits > that need to be setuid won't be. ****I was doing the 'make, make check, anda make install' as root... Third, are your XFS partitions in the > fstab? ****I have the XFS paritions in the fstab... Fourth, make sure you're trying to use xfsdump on entire > partitions only -- it won't work on subdirectories. ****I am trying to use xfsdump on entire partitions. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University > Zhen Liu Via Webmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
