On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 09:40:18 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I've been using Amanda 3.3.7 for a while with no problems. I'm building
> a new machine, and I installed Amanda 3.4.3 .
>
> I'm having a problem backing up file systems that have mounted file systems
> under them. For example, I have these two disks mounted:
>
> /dev/sda4 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
> /dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw)
>
> and I have this DLE:
>
> alfred /boot simple-gnutar-local
>
> The backup process hangs. However, as soon as I umount /boot/efi, the
> backup runs perfectly. If I remount /boot/efi, then the backup will
> hang again.
My impression is that the GNUTAR program is considered obsolete,
superceeded by the (more flexible) amgtar application plugin.
Since you are setting up a new server should consider making the switch
now as part of your new setup....
In any case, one fairly easy debugging step is to create an amgtar-based
dumptype and try that out instead of "simple-gnutar-local".
(For what it's worth, I am in the process of setting up a new Amanda
3.4.x server, and haven't had any hang when backing up my / partition
even though it has a number of filesystems mounted under it. I haven't
tried a scenario where the mounted filesystem was vfat, though.)
Nathan
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