"John R. Jackson" wrote:
> >But i have a question as to why, according to a tar on the tape afterwards,
> >only four out of the nine items in the directory to dump were actually
> >backed up. ...
>
> What version of GNU tar are you using? If it's not at least 1.13.17
> (and probably 1.13.19 would be better), you should upgrade.
But I just archived that dir to disk using tar and it got all the files
fine.
I downgraded my (gnu) tar to v1.12 last week because
http://www.amanda.org/patches.html says "there are a couple of other
problems in release 1.13 ... so its use is not recommended."
> Did Amanda do a full dump (level 0) or an incremental (level > 0)?
According to the email summary, L is 0.
> >george
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also, is it safe to directly tar to an amanda-written tape w/o amanda or
might that mess up later attempts to amrestore from that tape?
thx,
george
