On Wednesday 13 November 2002 11:49, Carl D. Blake wrote: >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?
Other than its RH8.0 with a bleeding edge (2.4.20-pre10-ac2) kernel, not really. Tar is of course 1.13-25. Frankly, I also expected them to be there, but after the last dumpcycle tapes had been restored from, all I had was the indices and such. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
