> 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

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