Is there any way to get amanda to change its naming convention of files on
the tape? ...
What do you mean by its naming convention?
I'd like to have it use something like:
WINS_NAME_DIRECTORY.tar.gz
Why? (just curious)
... is it possible to get amanda to make
tar.gz's instead of its own format? ...
No. Amanda needs the 32 KByte header on each file to know how the rest
of the file is formatted. However, assuming you told Amanda to use GNU
tar and told it to compress with gzip, the remainder of the file after
the first 32 KBytes is a .tar.gz.
You can easily get the file back, minus the header, with amrestore
or dd/amdd.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
