On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 13:33:53 +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > How can I see the contents of gnutar-list files? > > I tried tar/gunzip, ckecked amadmin etc but it seems I cannot read the > content. > > Need to know whats in those files to see whether my > inclusion/exclusion list is correct and why it takes too much time to > backup one particular host.
The gnutar-list files are produced by GNU tar, and are called "incremental snapshot files" in the gtar documentation -- see: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Snapshot-Files.html https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Fixing-Snapshot-Files.html If you are just trying to figure out what files are getting included in your backup, though, a better place to look is probably the index files that Amanda keeps. These are found under the "indexdir" directory, and the index itself is a plain-text (compressed) listing of the paths that were included in the given dump. Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239
