On 10/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just set up Disk Based Amanda backup , and every thing is fine, > I can do backup my files from remote computer, > but backed up files are not in tar format, here is my config, would > you please let me know why backed up files are not ending with tar > and tar can not open it.
The files *contain* tar-formatted data, but also have headers. To see the header: dd if=dumpfile bs=1k count=32 | less which will give instructions for a bare-metal recovery. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
