On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 at 10:54am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I have a 70GB disk which I don't want to devote a whole DLT to. I > really need to backup individual partitions on the disk. We are > running amanda on Solaris 7 and have been using dump to do our > backups. I believe to get round this problem I could use tar but I've > heard there can be problems with this, so what are they if there are > any? Also how do I go about backing-up and restoring using tar? > You just need to make sure that you're using a known good version of tar, and it has to be GNUtar. If you don't have it, go to alpha.gnu.org and install GNUtar 1.13.19.
Backing up and restoring using tar is almost identical to using dump. Just specify 'program "GNUTAR"' in the appropriate dumptype and use amrecover (or amrestore) as before. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
