Dustin, Thank you - this was exactly the issue and the new version of gtar and the additional switch completely corrected the issue.
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:04:40AM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Brian Cuttler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Was the size of the non-0 dumps a known issue ? > > Wondering if there was some other switch we should have thrown ? > > Is this a 'valid' solution from the amanda design point of view ? > > I suspect that it has something to do with device numbers in ZFS > snapshots, where gnutar will interpret a changed device number as > indicating a changed file -- with the result that the entire partition > seems to have changed. > > Newer gnutar versions have an option to ignore device numbers -- see > the amgtar(8) manpage for details. > > Dustin > > -- > Open Source Storage Engineer > http://www.zmanda.com --- Brian R Cuttler [email protected] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
