On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 at 11:35am, Alexander Jolk wrote

> Toralf Lund wrote:
> >    1. Dumps of directories containing several Gbs of data (up to roughly
> >       20Gb compressed in my case.)
> >    2. Use dumptype GNUTAR.
> >    3. Compress data using "compress client fast" or "compress server fast".
> > 
> > If you do, what exactly are your amanda.conf settings? And can you
> > actually extract *all* files from the dumps?
> 
> Yes, I'm doing this, and I've never had problems recovering all files,
> just once when the tape was failing.  I'll send you my amanda.conf
> privately.  BTW which version are you using?  I'm at version
> 2.4.4p1-20030716.

I think that OS and utility (i.e. gnutar and gzip) version info would be 
useful here as well.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University