>What would the advantages/disadvantages be of using GNU tar
>for all your backup needs? Is it less efficient than vendor
>dump utilities? Unwanted side effects?
In general, it's significantly slower, and touches the read dates on all
your files. On the other hand, it's possible to break up a
>Hmm. Its funny how an idea is completely lucid in my brain and yet gets
>mixed up between brain and keyboard. :)
Tell me about it :-)!
>What I mean by index is something like this:
>
>Position: host: file system
>
>not a complete index of each file available to be restored. ...
Oh, I see.
Wi
>What would the advantages/disadvantages be of using GNU tar
>for all your backup needs? Is it less efficient than vendor
>dump utilities? Unwanted side effects?
In general, it's significantly slower, and touches the read dates on all
your files. On the other hand, it's possible to break up a
Hmm. Its funny how an idea is completely lucid in my brain and yet gets
mixed up between brain and keyboard. :)
What I mean by index is something like this:
Position: host: file system
not a complete index of each file available to be restored. So that what
I'm currently calling an index would
Panasuik
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Subject: Re: Amanda tape index script
>I want a little shell/perl/python, etc. script that I can use to
>recreate an Amanda index. ...
That would be most welcome (although please use sh (not bash) or Perl
to keep in the spirit of what the rest of Amanda re
>I want a little shell/perl/python, etc. script that I can use to
>recreate an Amanda index. ...
That would be most welcome (although please use sh (not bash) or Perl
to keep in the spirit of what the rest of Amanda releases).
However (you knew that was coming, right? :-) ...
This is a much ha
