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

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Storage Software Engineer
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