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List:       amanda-users
Subject:    Re: Using Amanda To Back Up Specific Dir
From:       Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 () duke ! edu>
Date:       2001-11-28 11:20:58
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 at 6:26pm, Ana Maria Escalante wrote

> That sounds extrange to me. I am new to amanda, but I have been testing
> the program for two days now and I am backing up specific directories in
> all my servers without any problem. I back up /etc and /usr/local and
> /home in one server and /var and /etc and /home in another server all with
> the default dump utility and everything seems to be working fine, without
> error messages. And I have also recover files from all the directories
> without problem. And they are certanly not full file systems.
> 
From the 'dump' man page:

     files-to-dump is either a mountpoint of a filesystem or a list of files
     and directories to be backed up as a subset of a filesystem.  In the for­
     mer case, either the path to a mounted filesystem or the device of an un­
     mounted filesystem can be used.  In the latter case, certain restrictions
     are placed on the backup: -u is not allowed, the only dump level that is
     supported is -0 and all the files and directories must reside on the same
     filesystem.

So, a level 0 on a subdirectory will work, but nothing else.  Best switch 
to tar....

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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