On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 01:18:05PM -0400, myron wrote: > On Jul 22, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Frank Smith wrote: > > >Tar deals with filesystems, so you need to either change /dev/md0 > >to / (or whatever directory is mounted on it), or use dump, which > >deals with devices. Personally, I'd stick with tar, but others may > >prefer to use dump. > > > >Frank > > df -h reports these filesystems. So, I should have something like > this in disklist. > > errol /dev/mapper/system-root linux-tar # / > errol /dev/mapper/system-home linux-tar # /home > errol /dev/mapper/system-var linux-tar # /var > errol /dev/mapper/system-scratch linux-tar # /scratch >
No, as Frank said, tar needs to know what directory to start from; dump needs to know what device to back up. If you run "ls -lL /dev/mapper" you will see that each of your names above are either block or character devices (b or c as first char of line). What you want for tar is: errol / linux-tar errol /home linux-tar errol /var linux-tar errol /scratch linux-tar In this case the 2nd column is both what to back up and the DLE name used in reports. You could also do something like: errol Root / linux-tar errol Home /home linux-tar errol Var /var linux-tar errol Scratch /scratch linux-tar In this case Root, Home, etc., when combined with the host "errol" are the DLE name and /, /home, etc. are where tar is to start. The combined host:name must be unique in the disklist. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
