> On Jan 21, 2019, at 2:52 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 17.01.19 um 12:10 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> The idea is to let the normal runs write to storage "daily" and >> additionally keep the dumped files in the holdingdisk. >> >> After having all DLEs there I want to do something like: >> >> amflush daily -o storage=archive >> >> and get all FULL backups flushed to that specific set of tapes. > > (making good progress) > > Does the "storage" value get stored into the tarballs in the holding disk? > > I have files there dumped via "amdump -o storage=archive" and now want > to flush them to "storage=daily" > > amflush always stops immediately and amstatus shows a column "(archive)" > for each DLE. > > I even commented the second storage definition from amanda.conf, didn't > help ... so I assume it's somewhere in the tarball itself. Will try to > read it via amrestore now. >
The first block is a text description of the dump and how to use it. dd if=tapeOrFilename of=whatever bs=YourBlockSize count=1 should show that first block. Use skip=1 for put the actual dump to a useable file. (DD command from memory; I may be slightly off) Deb Baddorf
