On Tue, 7 Aug at 10:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> My amanda server is a linux box mybackup.me.com 192.1.1.1
> My solaris client is a solaris 7 box sun-server.me.com 192.1.1.2
>
> The amanda.conf on the server used a dump rather than gnu tar and
> compression was enabled.
dump/restore are generally filesystem/OS specific.
> The linux versions were:
> dump 0.4b19
> tar (GNU tar) 1.13.17
>
> The sun versions were:
> # dump -V
> dump: Software Generation Utilities (SGU) Solaris-ELF (4.0)
> The gnu tar is /bin/tar which come with solaris 7
Are you sure that is GNU tar? /bin/tar on my Sol7 boxen sure doesn't look
like GNU tar. AFAIK Sun has always shipped their own tar.
> Is amrecover refusing to restore the file because it was dumped on
> solaris which has compatibility issues with the linux dump?
Probably. I would recommend installing GNU tar 1.13.19 (from
alpha.gnu.org) and using GNU tar to backup the Solaris box.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
