Hi! recently I've installed amanda in a linux debian. By following an FAQ (or the man page, I don't remember) I've created a hidden directory /.furvbackup and into this multiple softlinks to the areas I want to backup. Into disklist I've:
localhost /.furvbackup comp-high
1. The FAQ also says to avoid the name "localhost"... Use the real name! (It works, but it will bite you sooner or later.)
2. From the dumptype "comp-high" I assume, you use DUMP and not GNUTAR. Is there a suitable "dump" program for the filesystem that you have /.furvbackup on? (e.g. if it is a reiserfs, there is no such thing as reiserdump). What does "amadmin yourconfig version" says about "DUMP" and "RESTORE"? BUT: you specified a subdirectory, and then you probably want GNUTAR, because "dump" of a subdirectory is usually not what you want (if your dump program can do it at all, you can't make incremental backups with all dumps I know) So you probably want "comp-high-tar". (verify that "amadmin yourconfig version" has a good value for "GNUTAR".)
3. Are you aware that making a backup of a symlink does NOT backup the file/dir where the symlink points to? You full backup probably is only a few K bytes in total; not what you want (unless you want to test just this case). So you probably just want a list of entries in there: if your /.furvbackup contains links to /home/john and /home/paul and /bigdisk, then you want entries as: furv /home/john comp-high-tar furv /home/paul comp-high-tar furv /bigdisk comp-high-tar
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: localhost /.furvbackup lev 0 FAILED [disk /.furvbackup offline on localhost?]
4. What did "amcheck" say?
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