Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 April 2007, Marc W. Mengel wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Could you send me a copy of your incremental file? AFAICT, they're >> binary files, so I'm not sure how you're speaking of "lines".. > >They're 512 byte records with a text line in each. Really. > What I am looking are ar

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:05:01PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Subtract the 00h, and you have the 254 its currently sitting at, >> apparently subject to the whims of an individual boot. If I build md >> as a module, then md will get 254 and devi

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-09 Thread dustin
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:05:01PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Subtract the 00h, and you have the 254 its currently sitting at, > apparently subject to the whims of an individual boot. If I build md as > a module, then md will get 254 and device-mapper (dm_mod) will get 253, > and if I build p

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 April 2007, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:43:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:53PM -0500, Marc Mengel wrote: >> > Couldn't someone hack up a utility to do a major number swapout in >> > the file where tar keeps track of what is in t

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:43:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:53PM -0500, Marc Mengel wrote: > > Couldn't someone hack up a utility to do a major number swapout in the > > file where tar keeps track of what is in the last incremental/full/etc.? > > That's what

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 08 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:53PM -0500, Marc Mengel wrote: >> Couldn't someone hack up a utility to do a major number swapout in the >> file where tar keeps track of what is in the last >> incremental/full/etc.? > >That's what I suggested in > >

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-08 Thread dustin
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:53PM -0500, Marc Mengel wrote: > Couldn't someone hack up a utility to do a major number swapout in the > file where tar keeps track of what is in the last incremental/full/etc.? That's what I suggested in http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/62

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 07 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:38:12PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> What we are left with, when the linux kernel finally gets this patch >> for good (its been reverted for now based on my findings, but its a >> good patch, and really needs to be don

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-07 Thread dustin
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:38:12PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > What we are left with, when the linux kernel finally gets this patch for > good (its been reverted for now based on my findings, but its a good > patch, and really needs to be done at some point even if we do have to > play a little

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 07 April 2007, Jon LaBadie wrote: [...]> >I suspect that a file is defined by the combination of its inode # and >device id (maj,min). If you take away consideration of the device id, >then lots of files would be defined by the same, non-unique inode #. > >If all you took away were con

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 08:41:56PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I don't know if everyone has been following the trail of tears regarding > doing backups with the newer kernel versions, but there is a gotcha > coming up. There needs to be a patch applied to the linux kernel that

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 07 April 2007, Frank Smith wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I don't know if everyone has been following the trail of tears >> regarding doing backups with the newer kernel versions, but there is a >> gotcha coming up. There needs to be a patch applied to the linux >> ker

Re: testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-06 Thread Frank Smith
Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I don't know if everyone has been following the trail of tears regarding > doing backups with the newer kernel versions, but there is a gotcha > coming up. There needs to be a patch applied to the linux kernel that > takes the hard drive device major number

testing a patched tar question.

2007-04-06 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I don't know if everyone has been following the trail of tears regarding doing backups with the newer kernel versions, but there is a gotcha coming up. There needs to be a patch applied to the linux kernel that takes the hard drive device major numbers out of the experimental area a

Re: tar question

2004-01-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:52:37AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 at 9:52am, s97sa4 wrote > > > Hi > > > > Please can you help! > > Please email the list itself ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and not members > directly -- you'll get more responses and not annoy people. > > > I wou

Re: tar question

2004-01-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 at 9:52am, s97sa4 wrote > Hi > > Please can you help! Please email the list itself ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and not members directly -- you'll get more responses and not annoy people. > I would like to configure Amanda to use Sun tar rather than gnutar > to preserve ACL on all f

Re: tar question

2004-01-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 at 2:37pm, Charlie Wiseman wrote > We were using a slightly older version of gtar, so we installed > 1.13.92. Now we are getting this for nearly all of our solaris machines: 1.13.25 is what you want. The newer versions are not compatible with amanda. -- Joshua Baker-LePain

tar question

2004-01-05 Thread Charlie Wiseman
We've been using amanda 2.4.4 for a while now, but we are still having a few problems with tar and solaris. We had been getting this error on a few of solaris machines: --snip-- /-- homes01 /disk1/homes lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/sfw/bin/gtar returned 2] sendbackup: start [homes01:/disk1/homes lev

Re: gnu tar question?

2002-01-15 Thread David T. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi everyone again, > Does anybody know how can i use gnu tar to make incremental backups? > Is it posible? In the amanda.conf file there is a section called 'dumptype'. All the different kind of dumps are defined. GNUTAR dumps usually have names that include 't

Re: gnu tar question?

2002-01-15 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On 15 Jan 2002 at 1:43pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Does anybody know how can i use gnu tar to make incremental backups? > Is it posible? > Just tell amanda to use 'program "GNUTAR"' in your dumptype. amanda will take care of the rest. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineer

gnu tar question?

2002-01-15 Thread Javier.Fernandez
hi everyone again, Does anybody know how can i use gnu tar to make incremental backups? Is it posible? Thanks. --- Javier Fernández Pérez Servicio de Informática Corporativa D.G. de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes Conseje

Re: tar question

2001-05-11 Thread Ray Shaw
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:36:07PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: > >... I'd like to back up at least > >their mail, and probably web directories. > >... > >I've been trying to do this with exclude lists, but I haven't hit the > >solution yet. ... > > Wow! I wouldn't have had the guts to try thi

Re: tar question

2001-05-11 Thread Ray Shaw
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:51:43AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:41:24PM -0400, Ray Shaw wrote: > > On that note, it is annoying that if I have an exclude > > file, say /etc/amanda/exclude.home, running amanda with that file > > produces different results than: > > > > t

Re: tar question

2001-05-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:41:24PM -0400, Ray Shaw wrote: > > I'm using amanda 2.4.1p1 (the version included in Debian potato). > > Currently, the /home partition on our main user system is too large to > back up fully (we have only a small tape drive). Rather than > completely leave users out

Re: tar question

2001-05-10 Thread John R. Jackson
>... I'd like to back up at least >their mail, and probably web directories. >... >I've been trying to do this with exclude lists, but I haven't hit the >solution yet. ... Wow! I wouldn't have had the guts to try this with exclude lists. They give me (real :-) headaches just trying to do "norma

tar question

2001-05-10 Thread Ray Shaw
I'm using amanda 2.4.1p1 (the version included in Debian potato). Currently, the /home partition on our main user system is too large to back up fully (we have only a small tape drive). Rather than completely leave users out in the cold, I'd like to back up at least their mail, and probably web