On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 at 2:31pm, Santiago wrote > amcheck passes fine. Amanda has permission to read this volume and can > read it (I tried as amanda to read it). > > I keep getting this error (from sendsize log): > > time 0.847: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /r/amanda/b1" > sendsize[8754]: time 0.847: running /usr/local/libexec/killpgrp > sendsize[8754]: time 0.850: DUMP: Cannot open /dev/i2o/hda1 > sendsize[8754]: time 0.850: DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > > man dump (snippet) > files-to-dump is either a mountpoint of a filesystem or a list of > files and directories to be backed up as a subset of a filesystem. > ____________ > > /dev/i2o/hda1 is a device. I don't have it listed in either amanda.conf > or disklist. It is the device that is mounted as /r on this system. I > don't know why dump is trying to open the device and not read the > directory. > > Posibilities - this directory is on the holding disk '/r/amanda', > however, I have the 'holdingdisk no' in the dumptype definition. > > Ideas? Please .. .
If what you are trying to backup is not an entire filesystem (as it sounds like this isn't), then you must use tar and not dump. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
