On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:14:41AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 at 1:19pm, Sean McGeever wrote
> 
> > > > Tru64-client sendsize.debug:
> 
> I know nothing of Tru64, but...
> 
[snip]
> > > > sendsize: running "/sbin/dump 0Ssf 1048576 - /dev/rdisk/dsk0a"
> 
> At least on Linux, the "S" flag is used to get estimates (this is what 
> amanda is trying to do here, not actually get a backup).  Obviously, for 
> this dump, S means something else.

Hi Joshua,
        this does seem to be the critical point.  In 2.4.3, 
sendsize now generates & executes:

sendsize[288178]: time 0.003: running "/sbin/dump 0Esf 1048576 - 
/dev/rdisk/dsk0d"

which of course, works as intended on Tru64 (i.e., estimation 
succeeds and both amdump & amverify complete successfully).

Thanks very much, Joshua, both for identifying the cause of 
this problem & for suggesting a working solution.

Cheers,

Sean