Thanks again, Gene and Frank! Yeah, my tar is fine, it's 1.13-25. I installed amanda from rpms. So according to Frank, since /var and /var/spool/mail are on different diskes, tar shouldn't cross them, right?
Best Chen > No, by dump, I meant the program 'dump', as opposed to the program > 'tar' (usually gnutar, and it needs to be at least version 1.13-19, > plain old 1.13 won't do, its busted, get 1.13-25 from alpha.gnu.org's > ftp site) > > tar should be able to do this, no problem, although if you leave the > email agent running full time (I do, I'm on dsl) then its every so > often scans of your mailbox at your ISP might occasionally cause a > "file changed while we read it" message from tar if its updateing the > mail spool while tar is reading it. > > However, since you have /var in the disklist, and tar traverses all > subdirs below the named one, there must be a more fundamental > problem, possibly related to permissions. You did configure and > build amanda as the user 'amanda' didn't you? And then become root > before installing her? > > >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? > > -- =========================================== Yu Chen Howard Hughes Medical Institute Chemistry Building, Rm 182 University of Maryland at Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 phone: (410)455-6347 (410)455-2718 fax: (410)455-1174 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===========================================