Jeff Schwartz wrote:

I'm going the silly way.  I forgot all about dump only working on
filesystems (a lesson I learned last year).  I was using a file just
as a test.  Nonetheless, I changed my disklist to backup /dev/hd3 on
mike and I get similar results.

I thought that was going to be the answer for sure because I see that
I'm using gtar on my Solaris machine and dump on the AIX.

I just installed gnu tar on my AIX machine and I tried again using
GNUTAR instead of DUMP.  I also changed what I'm backing up on mike
from /dev/hd3 to /tmp.  Similar response.  Missing estimate.

But now the contents of the /tmp/amanda/*.debug files should at least
be different.  What is it now?


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