Hi again, Thanks to everyone who replied to this.
I have added /dev/sda7 to my disklist file - it seems to be happy with that. I'll report back after my next amdump run. Thanks again. Regards Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Linn [mailto:celinn@;mtu.edu] Sent: 12 November 2002 18:55 To: Kevin Passey Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Should I backup /dev/sda7 which is - / on my system On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:32:43PM -0000, Kevin Passey wrote: > Hi, > > I have been backing this disk up - but since I've updated by RH7.2 install > from RHN I get the following message. > > ERROR: dilmom: [could not access sda7 (sda7): No such file or directory] > > Should I be backing up this disk - I would have thought so - but now amanda > will not recognise it. > > Can anybody point me in the right direction? are you using tar to do your archiving, or dump? if you are using tar, then i have seen that the "/" filesystem does not have a /etc/fstab entry in RH starting right around 7.[12], which means that tar has no concept of what to archive (i am fairly sure that amanda uses the local fstab to translate a filesystem path for disk devices when it is using tar). i got around this by simply using "/" as the filesystem in the amanda disklist entry, as opposed to the disk device (/dev/sd07 in your case). > Thanks > > Kevin sincerely, chris -- Christopher Linn, (celinn at mtu.edu) | By no means shall either the CEC Staff System Administrator | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.
