how to dd if=... a chunked dump blob?

2005-12-06 Thread Will Partain
Given a whole dump blob that has landed in holding disk, I can look at it (for example, to answer the question Why is that so _big_?) with: dd if=foo.verilab.com._.1 bs=32k skip=1 | tar tfv - | sort +2nr | head This is pretty well documented. What if, instead, my dump blob is chunked, as in

Re: how to dd if=... a chunked dump blob?

2005-12-06 Thread Will Partain
I asked: dd if=foo.verilab.com._.1 bs=32k skip=1 | tar tfv - | sort +2nr | head What if, instead, my dump blob is chunked, as in this case (1GB chunks): Alexander Jolk suggested (one of two possibilities): Well, you either do some shell magic: for i in foo.verilab.com._.1*; do dd if=$i

stopped getting incrementals after 2.4.4-2.4.5 change: ??

2005-11-17 Thread Will Partain
(for the worse)? Thanks, Will partain% svn diff -r227 amanda.conf.tmpl Index: amanda.conf.tmpl === --- amanda.conf.tmpl(revision 227) +++ amanda.conf.tmpl(working copy) @@ -30,6 +30,25 @@ # B - biggest

Re: Amanda configuration, vxfs and ClearCase

2001-02-05 Thread Will Partain
"Stiansen, Per Sverre" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. To successfully back up a CC server, the VOBs needs to be locked. This is normally done with a script. How can I force the client to run a script before (and after to unlock the VOBs) backup is executed? You build amanda