-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 06.04.2005 at 10:03 -0400, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> >>I am still trying to understand and improve my inherited amanda > >>configuration. I notice that in the disklist, there are parent > >>directories listed before their children. Here is an example: > >> > >>myhost / comp-low-tar > >>myhost /usr comp-low-tar > >>myhost /var comp-med-tar > >>myhost /net/myhost/home comp-med-tar > > > >Normally, a single entry in the disklist with have it subdirectories > >backed up, as long as that stays on a single disk partition. So, if you > >have / and /usr on different partitions, you need to list them > >separately. If they're on the same partition, you don't need to list > >them again. > > Thanks Dave, > So then if /net/mysystem/home is on the same partition as > /net/mysystem/username, is /net/mysystem/username being backed up twice. > It sounds to me like it is. Erm, not sure, because /net/mysystem/username is not mentioned in your disklist. From the above entries, /net/mysystem/username lies under / and would thus be backed up. Perhaps it would be useful if you show us the partition layout on your system. What output does the command 'mount' return? Dave. - -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCU/s+bpQs/WlN43ARAs9VAJ0eagWcZlA9yyhIV9yEouyl/ks1kACeK9Gx ZQkrLgq4s8nfm+BPOASjBGQ= =YRAk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
