Switching to GNUTAR - RE: Amanda - unable to create temporary directory

2005-02-24 Thread Gil Naveh
Thanks for the help, At this point it seems that the best way for us is to switch from ufsdump to gnutar. But before doing so - what will happen with the backups that I did so far? (I backed our data on a tape drive). Does ufsdump and gnutar stores the data the same way? (Does ufsdump level

Re: Switching to GNUTAR - RE: Amanda - unable to create temporary directory

2005-02-24 Thread Brian Cuttler
Gil, I'm confused, why would suid be needed on ufsdump - isn't it run beneith the amanda program (/usr/local/libexec/) rundump which is suid ? For recovery, personally I use amrestore and pipe it to the required utility so as long as I can figure that out (and its imbedded into the first block

Re: Switching to GNUTAR - RE: Amanda - unable to create temporary directory

2005-02-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:16:36PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: Gil, I'm confused, why would suid be needed on ufsdump - isn't it run beneith the amanda program (/usr/local/libexec/) rundump which is suid ? It is not an amanda requirement, it is the way the system supplies ufsdump. I

Re: Switching to GNUTAR - RE: Amanda - unable to create temporary directory

2005-02-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 01:14:03PM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote: At this point it seems that the best way for us is to switch from ufsdump to gnutar. But before doing so - what will happen with the backups that I did so far? (I backed our data on a tape drive). If you change the program in your