>But I just archived that dir to disk using tar and it got all the files
>fine.
And did you do it the same way Amanda does, i.e. with all the listed
incremental type flags it hands to GNU tar? That's where a lot of the
problems are, not in just basic tar operations.
>I downgraded my (gnu) tar to v1.12 last week because
>http://www.amanda.org/patches.html says "there are a couple of other
>problems in release 1.13 ... so its use is not recommended."
As I understand it (I don't use GNU tar), the latest (.17 or .19)
versions are probably OK. We should probably update the web page.
But going back to 1.12 plus the Amanda patch (you did apply them, didn't
you?) is also OK.
>Also, is it safe to directly tar to an amanda-written tape w/o amanda or
>might that mess up later attempts to amrestore from that tape?
What do you mean?
Amanda deliberately leaves the tape positioned at the end when it is done,
i.e. it does not do a rewind. This is in case you want to append some
more data in the same run, which should be reasonably safe (although
I'd certainly do a couple of experiments before I committed to this).
I don't know what amrestore will have to say about that if it bangs into
your file(s). But by that time, it will have gone past all the Amanda
data anyway and so you could ignore whatever whining it does.
In my (very public :-) opinion, you should **NOT** rewind or reload an
Amanda tape, fsf to the "end" and then write some information, unless
you really, really know what you're doing and can verify at least 10
different ways that you're actually at the end of tape.
>george
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
