Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

2000-12-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 5, 2000, Chris Karakas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >> On Dec 1, 2000, Chris Karakas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Do you mean that just by undefining GNUTAR_LISTED_INCREMENTAL_DIR, >> > AMANDA is going to call tar using --incremental, instead of >> > --l

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

2000-12-05 Thread John R. Jackson
>I am in the process of undefining GNUTAR_LISTED_INCREMENTAL_DIR and >recompiling. ... I think (but am not 100% certain) you can do this when you ./configure by adding --without-gnutar-listdir. Make sure you do a "make distclean" before re-running ./configure. Check config/config.h for GNUTAR_

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

2000-12-05 Thread Chris Karakas
Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2000, Chris Karakas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you mean that just by undefining GNUTAR_LISTED_INCREMENTAL_DIR, > > AMANDA is going to call tar using --incremental, instead of > > --listed-incremental? > > That's right. ... > However, you'll still b

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

2000-12-01 Thread Chris Karakas
Johannes Niess wrote: > > > Why do you use VFAT on the server? Samba can do it's job on all file > systems. Unix/Linux file systems like ext2 allow for a much more > flexible administration of Samba because you can use Samba's access > control on top of standard Unix access rights. > Maybe I wa

Re: GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

2000-11-24 Thread David Lloyd
Chris! > My suspicion is that GNU tar, which I use in the version 1.12, somehow > cannot compute incrementals right, for filesystems of vfat type that are > mounted the way I described above...(?) Eeck! Even RedHat have a later version of GNU tar than 1.1.2 and (honestly) they're not known to

GNU tar estimates for vfat filesystems (Was: How do I check level 1 sizes?)

2000-11-23 Thread Chris Karakas
"John R. Jackson" wrote: > > >I want to check the level 1 sizes that AMANDA reports. ... > > First of all, let's be clear here. It's not Amanda. It's your dump > program that is reporting sizes. Amanda just uses them. > as I wrote in a previous posting, I wanted to wait a little and observ