On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:48:00AM +1300, Glen Eustace wrote:
> This is probably a super dumb question but ...
>
> I have just noticed ( never really looked very hard before ), that amanda
> doesn't seem to be doing incrementals with tar. A Level 0 and the subsequent
> Level 1 dumps are the same size ( give or take a few bytes ). How does one
> make tar do incrementals when used with amanda.
>
> There are /etc/amandates files that are owned by amanda but they never appear
> to be written to. I am using the comp-root-tar and comp-user-tar dumptypes.
> --
Actually incrementals are working fine for me.
GNUtar records inode numbers in a listed incremental file.
Could you please run
tar --version
and check if you have a runtar debug file (usually under /tmp/amanda)
What OS and filesystem are you using?
IIRC GNUtar checks inode numbers and this fails for some filesystems
without UNIX inodes (e.g. mounting Novell drives, or NTFS filesystems
under Linux).
The other possible reason is running GNUtar with --atime-preserve.
You can configure Amanda to use --atime-preserve, but this is
only useful if you can live with large incrementals.
Ciao
Dietmar
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