On Friday 07 January 2005 11:59, Brian Cuttler wrote:
>Stefan,
>
>Yes, will strip more stuff out (didn't realize it had grown so much.
>
>The instruction I was following from Gene where pretty explicite
>(not that I follow all that well) and where intended to save the
>amanda header, reset the block count, restore the header and flush
>the buffers. Unfortunately I failed to retrieve the headers and the
>command was simple enough that I'm baffled at having incorrectly
>coded it, "invalid argument", must be me. I'll try again.

Humm, are you saying that amlabel works and can read the label 
written, but that dd doesn't/cannot?  Back to 'man dd' as it exists 
on that Irix system would be my next suggestion.

>> Do your AMANDA-binaries point to the proper xfs-tools? Is the
>> proper xfsdump used?
>
>Truth be told, I'd have expected dump and restore to be in the same
>directory as one another, but this matches the config on other,
> working Irix amanda systems.
>
>samar 126# which xfsrestore
>/sbin/xfsrestore
>samar 127# which xfsdump
>/usr/sbin/xfsdump
>
>Yes, I can try a different config on the system, or for that matter
>just save/edit the disklist and amanda.conf, its not like I am
> likely to lose a working config.
>
>                                               thanks,
>
>                                               Brian
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