On Wednesday 13 November 2002 11:49, Carl D. Blake wrote:
>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?

Other than its RH8.0 with a bleeding edge (2.4.20-pre10-ac2) kernel, 
not really.

Tar is of course 1.13-25.  Frankly, I also expected them to be 
there, but after the last dumpcycle tapes had been restored from, 
all I had was the indices and such.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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