Re: root-tar failing

2002-03-09 Thread Jenn Sturm
Thanks! It looks like my problem was that I didn't get that the exclude file needed to reside on the client. Once I fixed that it worked like a charm! -Jenn The users.. and usrs directories are backed up as filesystems so that's why they are excluded here. I'm not sure whether this is

Re: root-tar failing

2002-03-08 Thread Dan Wilder
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:02:11PM -0500, Jenn Sturm wrote: -- I've configured my Linux box to backup my Irix box using tar, as recommended on this list. It works great for everything but the root paritition. I've tried dumptype comp-root-tar and root-tar, and it continues to fail. I

Re: root-tar failing

2002-03-08 Thread Jan Boshoff
Jenn Sturm wrote: -- I've configured my Linux box to backup my Irix box using tar, as recommended on this list. It works great for everything but the root paritition. I've tried dumptype comp-root-tar and root-tar, and it continues to fail. I tried creating an exclude.gtar file, and that

Re: root-tar failing

2002-03-08 Thread Frank Smith
Look in /tmp/amanda for runtar.*.debug file(s). In the debug file is the command line used to invoke tar, look for --exclude-from and make sure that the path and filename specified are as expected. If not, verify that your dumptype in amanda.conf includes exclude list exclude.gtar Good luck,

Re: root-tar failing

2002-03-08 Thread Doug Silver
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Dan Wilder wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:02:11PM -0500, Jenn Sturm wrote: -- I've configured my Linux box to backup my Irix box using tar, as recommended on this list. It works great for everything but the root paritition. I've tried dumptype comp-root-tar