On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greets folks; > > I now have recovered as much as I can, but a couple of things need > to be said. > > Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a > file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, its > certainly a fixable problem. I recovered all the indexes and > curfiles and such but absolutely nothing else that could be > construed as a configuration file. > > So chg-scsi.conf, amanda.conf, disklist, tapelist & the rest of the > configuration stuff in /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1 is gone and > I'm going to have to re-invent a goodly number of wheels before > amanda is back up and running. > I'm a little puzzled. When I look at the files that amanda says it backed up it looks like it backed up the above files you mentioned on my system. My system is a RedHat Linux 6.0 system using GNU tar V1.12. Is your system and/or tar different? -- Carl D. Blake Director of Engineering Boeckeler Instruments, Inc. 4650 S. Butterfield Dr. Tucson, AZ 85714
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