Re: OnStream DI-30, amrecover not working

2002-03-03 Thread Ray Shaw
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:11:11PM -0500, John R Jackson wrote: I found I had to rewind the tape before running amrecover extract Otherwise I get a can't read file header error Is this normal? OnStream drives are evil It's my understanding they cannot do file marks properly, so what

Re: [Amanda-users] Re: Linux and dump

2001-05-20 Thread Ray Shaw
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:45:52PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:18:30AM -0400, Ray Shaw wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:53:59PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: clip I can also tell from personal experience that I haven't had trouble with GNU tar 1.13.17

Re: Linux and dump

2001-05-17 Thread Ray Shaw
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:53:59PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: clip I can also tell from personal experience that I haven't had trouble with GNU tar 1.13.17 on GNU/Linux/x86, but I still haven't been able to do backups reliably with 1.13.19 (it will generally abort part-way through the

Re: missing files

2001-05-14 Thread Ray Shaw
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:57:02AM +0200, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: dump 0.4b16-1 on a debian potato system. Go get a newer version of Linux dump (0.4b22, http://dump.sourceforge.net/) as many bugfixes have been applied. Probably the best way to do this is to temporarily change the

Re: tar question

2001-05-11 Thread Ray Shaw
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:51:43AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:41:24PM -0400, Ray Shaw wrote: On that note, it is annoying that if I have an exclude file, say /etc/amanda/exclude.home, running amanda with that file produces different results than: tar cvf

Re: tar question

2001-05-11 Thread Ray Shaw
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:36:07PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: ... I'd like to back up at least their mail, and probably web directories. ... I've been trying to do this with exclude lists, but I haven't hit the solution yet. ... Wow! I wouldn't have had the guts to try this with

tar question

2001-05-10 Thread Ray Shaw
I'm using amanda 2.4.1p1 (the version included in Debian potato). Currently, the /home partition on our main user system is too large to back up fully (we have only a small tape drive). Rather than completely leave users out in the cold, I'd like to back up at least their mail, and probably