On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:09, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-05-11 15:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Troubleshooting is incredibly slow because it's not a problem discovered > > by amcheck, so i have to wait 24 hours every time to see whether I've > > improved the situation. I'm getting worried, now, because in a few more > > days I will be overwriting the only Level 0 for /home. If I haven't > > cracked this in a couple more days I'll have to burn that dump to DVD to > > avoid losing it. > > One quick workaround (until you solved the problem), is to set the > size of the vtape to anything large enough to hold the dump in one > file, and split that result file up with "split -c 4100m", and then > burn those parts to DVD. > If the exclude problem is solved in today's backup the problem may disappear. I'll bear this in mind, though, if there is still a problem.
> Restoring is then done by "cat"-ing all those parts together again: > > cat x?? | dd bs=32k skip=1 | gtar -xvpGf - > > If you got the diskspace... Hmmmm..... Anne
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