On Friday 07 January 2005 11:59, Brian Cuttler wrote: >Stefan, > >Yes, will strip more stuff out (didn't realize it had grown so much. > >The instruction I was following from Gene where pretty explicite >(not that I follow all that well) and where intended to save the >amanda header, reset the block count, restore the header and flush >the buffers. Unfortunately I failed to retrieve the headers and the >command was simple enough that I'm baffled at having incorrectly >coded it, "invalid argument", must be me. I'll try again.
Humm, are you saying that amlabel works and can read the label written, but that dd doesn't/cannot? Back to 'man dd' as it exists on that Irix system would be my next suggestion. >> Do your AMANDA-binaries point to the proper xfs-tools? Is the >> proper xfsdump used? > >Truth be told, I'd have expected dump and restore to be in the same >directory as one another, but this matches the config on other, > working Irix amanda systems. > >samar 126# which xfsrestore >/sbin/xfsrestore >samar 127# which xfsdump >/usr/sbin/xfsdump > >Yes, I can try a different config on the system, or for that matter >just save/edit the disklist and amanda.conf, its not like I am > likely to lose a working config. > > thanks, > > Brian >--- > Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 > Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 > NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.31% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.