>In a test, i removed the --listed-incremental /usr/....amanda_0.new
>option, and tar archived all my files, just how i like it. Why does
>Amanda put that option there? ...
Ummm, because that's required to do incremental backups. :-)
>And is it feasible/desirable to make it go
>away for at least level 0 backups?
Only if you don't want to do incrementals (in other words, no).
For full dumps, as I recall, Amanda creates an empty file and gives that
to gtar with --listed-incremental. You might try something like this:
cp /dev/null /tmp/my-li-file
gtar ... --listed-incremental /tmp/my-li-file ...
and see what you get.
>Another question: Why doesn't that /usr/...amanda_0.new file exist? I
>have only a
>/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/dellmachine_home_amanda_0 file, with
>contents 989184075
>773 374412 ./.xauth).
It probably did exist at the time Amanda ran. The ".new" in the name
is a clue that Amanda is using that name and if everything goes right,
it is renamed to the "real" name (without the ".new").
Based on what you've posted above, you were trying to back up something
called /home/amanda, right? Is that an actual home directory? It looks
like it is based on the listed incremental file which only lists one
item, .xauth, and that's the kind of thing I'd expect to see inside a
home directory.
>george
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