--On Wednesday, February 06, 2002 22:20:47 -0600 "W. D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 16:46 2/6/2002, Frank Smith, wrote: >> Forget about "all fulls on weekend, incrementals weekdays" > > Does this mean do full backups each time? No. it just means you might need to change your mindset from 'traditional' backup methods, where you might run full backups on Friday night (or the 1st of the month or whatever) and incrementals on other nights, to letting Amanda intermingle full and incrementals on each run, thereby getting better use out of your tape capacity. > >> Check your index files for Big Numbers. > > Big files? > No, big numbers in front of each line in the index file, i.e.: 16230523 /export/home/myjunk instead of: /export/home/myjunk The numbers in front of each line are a result of using a bad version of tar, and if your index files contain them then you probably will be unable to restore much (if any) of your data. So if you see them, you better quickly get a known working version of tar and force a full backup of the affected filesystems ASAP. Frank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
