On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 at 5:15pm, Adam Lins wrote > I have a problem with my index files. Each run, a gzip'd index file is > created. Each run, this file is about 20 bytes long. I doubt gzip is > compressing the information on 20+GB of files into 20 bytes... :-(
Out of curiousity, what are the contents of those files, once you gunzip them? > Looking at the sendbackup.*.log files, I can see where the index > program is invoked. I don't see anything to indicate _why_ the index > files are so small. > > The amanda.conf has a global config with index yes which is used with > all the dumptypes I have. > > amadmin reports v2.4.2p2. > I'm running a RH7.2 Linux box, x86. > GNU tar, gzip are in the right places. > GNU gzip is v1.3 --- is that the right version? > GNU tar is v1.13.19; what else should I look for/at to diagnose this? Is this from a package, or did you compile amanda yourself? What does your ipchains/tables setup look like? > I'd like to know how to restore index files from tape, if anyone knows > how to do that... This was discussed a while back -- check the archives. I believe the consensus was that it wasn't all that easy. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
