On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:15:50PM -0400, stan wrote: > I am still fiighting with Amanda on 4.5 It seems to invoke dump as follows: > > /sbin/dump dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/rwd0a > > Which reesults in the follwing error: > > $ /sbin/dump dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/rwd0a | cat > /tmp/foo > dump: density is invalid [10 - 327670] > > As I understand this invocation from reading the man page, it should do a > level 0 dump sending the dump to STDOUT, and assume the atle is 1048576 > feet long. > > Can anyone tell me why it is compalining about density?
Hmm, my bad. Runing: /sbin/dump dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/rwd0a > /dev/null works fine. Not certain why sending it to a ipe caused a problem, but it seems that it did. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
