On Tuesday 01 June 2004 10:26, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:14:16PM -0700, gen2 wrote: >> > /dev/sda9 is NOT a mount point, its a descriptor only and will >> > probably fail forever. >> > >> > now, if that disk is mounted someplace, as in /mnt/sda9 on the >> > machine whose alias is node1, and it is mounted when amdump >> > runs, it should work like a champ. >> >> Ok, what I'm experiencing lends that a lot of credence, but what >> sent me off in this direction was (from the amanda distribution, >> example disklist entries) >> >> # Dump Joe's NetBSD machine, with the mounted MS-DOS partition >> dumped # using tar. >> #joespc wd0a comp-root >> #joespc wd0e comp-user >> #joespc /msdos comp-user-tar >> >> which seems to imply that it's possible to back up unmounted >> partitions, and that would be really great! I've always been under >> the impression that this was amanda-possible somehow, but never >> have been able to make it happen. >> >> Seems like this would be the way to back up a partition regardless >> of formatting (like an HFS+ or NT part, which is really what I'm >> after). > >If the program you tell amanda to use for the backup is a version >of tar, then it can only backup files and directories. That is a >property of tar, not amanda. And of course, for there to be files >and directories, the partition must be mounted. > >If instead you tell amanda to use a version of dump, those programs >generally work at the device level (even when told to work on a >mount point) and should be able to backup umounted partitions.
I didn't know that Jon, thanks. But with all the bad press dump has collected (even LT damns it, and did so again fairly recently), I haven't ever given it a test run here. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
