On Tuesday 11 November 2003 11:38, Yu Chen wrote: >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 > Thats correct, tar stays on the filesystem its started on for each invocation.
Installing amanda from rpms can at times be a problem child, and is why the majority of us use the tarballs. >> 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? -- 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.
