On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:02, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> Greets folks;
> 
> I now have recovered as much as I can, but a couple of things need 
> to be said.
> 
> Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access a 
> file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, its 
> certainly a fixable problem.  I recovered all the indexes and 
> curfiles and such but absolutely nothing else that could be 
> construed as a configuration file.  
> 
> So chg-scsi.conf, amanda.conf, disklist, tapelist & the rest of the 
> configuration stuff in /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1 is gone and 
> I'm going to have to re-invent a goodly number of wheels before 
> amanda is back up and running.
> 
I'm a little puzzled.  When I look at the files that amanda says it
backed up it looks like it backed up the above files you mentioned on my
system.  My system is a RedHat Linux 6.0 system using GNU tar V1.12.  Is
your system and/or tar different?
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