Hi,
(Is there a limit to how many questions you can post in a week?
I've had my share of problems lately.)
I have some disks on some Sun systems that are larger than the
capacity of the dds3 tapes I'm using for backups with Amanda.
This has caused me to compile GNUtar on the Sun machines and
recompile Amanda for use with the same so that I can break the
backups of the disks into smaller chunks.
Upon such a backup, all appears to run fine although the number of
bytes reported to have been backed up will be significantly lower than
expected. Restoring such a backup reveals that only the directory
tree with no files was restored (and thus apparently backed up). Any
explanation for this?
I do similar backups on linux boxes using the system default tar
command without a problem. This seems to reveal that something
is screwy with the GNU tar I compiled on the Suns. However, if I try
tarring a directory using this compiled version manually,
everything appears to work as I would expect (using 'tar cvf . . .').
Could there be some flag that Amanda uses with tar that is not
working correctly with the version I compiled on the Suns? If
someone could tell me which flags are used by Amanda, I could test
the Sun compiled version of GNU tar manually with these flags and see
what I get.
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Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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