Re: amrecover questions

[Galen Johnson]

hmmm...it seems I sent my last reply only to Joshua..anywho...anyone have any clue as to which maillist one needs to be on for tar issues? I had responded to Joshua that I'm beginning to believe that tar is at issue here (tar 1.13.25). It's either tar or the options fed to it but I can't find where in the code the options are fed to tar for the backup so I can try to give it a -g instead of -G (it was easy to find for amrecover).

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Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 4:59pm, Galen Johnson wrote

I also have an issue with recover in that it deletes files when the incremental is restored. I can almost understand why. It seems that if the files aren't included in the incremental (and they won't be if they haven't changed) the tar command seems to assume that the files have been removed and deletes them to have the directory appear to be in the "same state" as it thinks it was. Anyone else run into this? Is there some subtle configuration I'm missing?

Sorry, I didn't quite understand this the first time. This seems like a tar bug. What version are you running? If it's recent, I'd report it to the tar maintainers. If not, try the latest.

I need an answer for this...if amrecover is gonna botch the restores I'm gonna have to find a different solution which I would prefer not to do since I like relative ease of Amanda. I'm using 2.4.3 with tar...which I suspect may be part of the problem since the arguments ot restore are 'xpGvf' but I'm not familiar enough with how the old gnu style used to work.

You could always just 'amrestore' the tar images off the tape(s) and
fiddle with the tar options to see if you can get it do what you want/what it should...