On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 at 12:04pm, Jonathan Murray wrote > > > 1) Can amanda back up and restore xfs file systems on IRIX box? I have > > one IRIX box that uses efs that appears to back up fine (restores never > > work, but that's another problem) and one that uses xfs that I can't get > > to work with either dump or tar. Both tar and dump fail on the system > > using xfs filesystem with disk offline errors even though amcheck > > appears happy. > > To use dump on an xfs filesystem, the IRIX box must have xfsdump > installed, and amanda must have found it at ./configure time. tar should > work, however. Time to go through the debug logs for the tar backups. > > > 2) Is amrecover a secondary component that is installed separately? The > > UNIX backup and Recovery book indicates amrecover is run from the > > client, however, it doesn't appear to be part of a client installation. > > Nope -- amrecover is installed even when you do --without-server. Well, > unless you did --without-amrecover... :) Another thing to check is that your filesystem is actually listed in /etc/fstab. Sometimes IRIX doesn't put it's root filesystem there and amanda can't deal with that. -Mitch
