On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:09:24PM -0400, Kurt Yoder wrote:
> So what would be
> wrong with the dump image? Should I try manually uncompressing that
> image and seeing what's on it?

I doubt you'd learn anything.  As far as taper is concerned, I
believe the image is just an opaque stream of bytes.  If there's
something in the image's content that's killing taper -- and that
seems pretty farfetched! -- it'll be in the compressed byte
stream as it is in the holding disk.

A problem in the uncompressed image would affect the lower-level
restore tool (restore, gtar, etc.), but as far as Amanda itself
is concerned, the only effect I can imagine would be on index
generation, since that depends on the lower-level restorer.  But
indexing shouldn't come into play during amflush.

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