Hi,
yes you can, go to your amanda.conf:
have a look at the defined dumptypes at the bottom of it, an check if
one meets your requirements. in the example-amanda.conf there are some
dumptypes defined using tar. if none meets your requirements create a
new one including the line

        programm "GNUTAR"

which tells amanda to use tar as backup-program.
then edit your disklist setting the disks in question to use this
dumptype.
now run amcheck to make shure the needed files and directorys for tar
exist. If it complains about something fix it and you should be fine for
the next run.

Christoph

Ranveer Attalia schrieb:

Thanks for getting back to me

The filesystem version we are using is ext3. Can I run a tar using
Amanda, so it doesnt interfere with the filesystem versions? How would I

go about doign that? Would a separate config and disklist need to be created?

By the way, we dont have a firewall issue because these machines
(servers & clients) are completely independant of any connection via the
firewall.

Thanks - Ranveer -----Original Message----- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net] Sent: 12 August 2004 18:04

To: Ranveer Attalia
Cc: Christoph Scheeder; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???

On Thursday 12 August 2004 12:08, Ranveer Attalia wrote:

Yes tsslin1 is a linux machine and no there was no finishing line on sendbackup, but I have another linux machine that is working fine with

the same version of amanda client on it. What do you mean by
ext2/3 ?

The question is what filesystem version you are using?  We're assuming
that its ext2, with the journalling laid on top which is then called
ext3.  Dump would care, tar would not.

- Ranveer

DUMP SUMMARY:
                                   DUMPER STATS            TAPER
STATS

HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
-------------------------- ---------------------------------
------------
pedlinux1    /           1   64770  64770   --   11:37  93.0
0:106639.1
pedlinux1    /boot       1      10     10   --    0:02   4.1   0:00
34.9

-----Original Message-----
From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:christoph.scheeder AT scheeder DOT de]
Sent: 12 August 2004 16:57
To: Ranveer Attalia
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: data timeout - no replies...anyone???

Hi,
That is all what your sendbackup.debug file contains?
no line telling dump reached 100% ?
and no finishing line from sendbackup?

Then your dump-process is dying whitout message after 43.03% of the Backup.

am i correct that this is a linux-box?
then i would recomend switching to tar for the backup's, as dump for
ext2/3 is known to be problematic with active (mounted) filesystems.
Christoph

Something Chhristoph wrote triggerd another fading memory.  If there is
a firewall involved, and the ports were opened ok, but the firewall
see's no activity to 'keep-alive' within a certain time, it closed the
ports.  This happened to another user at least a year ago IIRC.  I
believe the cure was to extend the autoclosure timeing in the firewall
rules.

And I concur with Christoph regarding dump.  Tar worked better for me,
and it usually gives sensible error messages when it doesn't.  But tar
versions vary too, and historicly we have been recommending only version
1.13-19 or 1.13-25.  There is an even newer version extant, but I can't
recall if anyone here on this list has said it works correctly or not.

--
Cheers, Gene
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