Thanks, Gene
Think that might be the problem. I will try it tonight.
So you mean by "dump", it should backup everything under /var including
/var/spool/mail? But it didn't happen on my system, the "dump" didn't
back it up. That's why I added the entry.
Chen
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:42, Yu Chen wrote:
> >Hello, I have a client with diskes like this:
> >/dev/hda1 /boot
> >/dev/hda2 /
> >/dev/hda3 /var
> >/dev/hda5 /var/spool/mail
> >
> >before, the amanda works fine with the first three diskes, recently,
> > I added /var/spool/mail to the disklist, but amanda failed to back
> > it up, gave out message:
> >FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> > hostname /var/spool/mail lev 0 FAILED [disk /var/spool/mail
> > offline?]
> >
> >I don't know where to look into, thanks for any advices!
> >
> >Chen
>
> Are you using tar, which can do a subdir, or dump, which does the
> whole partition or nothing?
>
>
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