On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:40, Frank Smith wrote: >>>> > Hello, I have a client with diskes like this: >>>> > /dev/hda1 /boot >>>> > /dev/hda2 / >>>> > /dev/hda3 /var >>>> > /dev/hda5 /var/spool/mail > >Notice that /var/spool/mail is a seperate partion than /var. Dump >and tar (with the options Amanda calls it with) does not cross >filesytems, so a backup of /var on your machine will not backup >/var/spool/mail. > >Frank
I didn't give that much thought because this list looks almost bogus. I've tried to do similar operations to expand disk space here while figuring out howto get the data moved to a larger partition, and linux seems to be able to get fooled in this regard, so I would have had to mount the second "/var" as "/var2" or some such work around. And I need to make a transition to yet another bigger disk here as I have 2Gb /root at 99% & its already been moved from hda to hdd when 1Gb was a bottleneck. 120Gb drive wanted, cheap. :) >>>> > 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? >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M >> 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly >> Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message >> by Gene Heskett are: >> Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.