On 9/27/07, John E Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed. I was looking for the format documented in the .info > pages for gnutar, but couldn't find it.
Not to toot my own horn, but there's a tool to display/edit these numbers in the tar scripts/ directory. It's available via CVS at http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/tar/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit?revision=1.2&root=tar The hand- (or sed-)editing of these files works fine, but the script handles the various flavors, including those which use embedded NUL bytes, etc. > Supporting a per-DLE mode to [temporarily] ignore a change in devno in > amanda should be easy. See http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Incremental-Dumps.html -- it's actually not so easy, unfortunately. > And maybe adding a "devno changed" check in amcheck would be nice - > the client has the gnutar-list files, so it would require some work in > the client side of amcheck. This might be an interesting addition to the GNU Tar application, when it's complete. I'm not sure if there's a good way to stuff it into the current implementation. > For us, this was a large raid, so suffering through a couple days of > huge incremental dumps was painful (particularly while getting 'dumps > way too big' for some DLEs) and threw the balance out of whack. Gene had similar problems -- it really throws Amanda off its stride. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
