Hello I have just set up Disk Based Amanda backup , and every thing is fine, I can do backup my files from remote computer, but backed up files are not in tar format, here is my config, would you ple
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 19:35:23 -0500
The files *contain* tar-formatted data, but also have headers. To see the header: dd if=dumpfile bs=1k count=32 | less which will give instructions for a bare-metal recovery. Dustin -- Storage Softwa
Thank you, I could open the files with dd and then pipe it to tar command. is there any way to just create the tar file, I don't want to use dd for restoring my backup ? is there any benefit of using
Author: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:25:27 -0500
The headers store information Amanda can use for recovery. Keep in mind that Amanda is much more than a shell-script wrapper around 'tar'. The first is the file number on the vtape. The .1 is the lev