On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:09, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2006-05-11 15:58, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Troubleshooting is incredibly slow because it's not a problem discovered
> > by amcheck, so i have to wait 24 hours every time to see whether I've
> > improved the situation.  I'm getting worried, now, because in a few more
> > days I will be overwriting the only Level 0 for /home.  If I haven't
> > cracked this in a couple more days I'll have to burn that dump to DVD to
> > avoid losing it.
>
> One quick workaround (until you solved the problem), is to set the
> size of the vtape to anything large enough to hold the dump in one
> file, and split that result file up with "split -c 4100m", and then
> burn those parts to DVD.
>
If the exclude problem is solved in today's backup the problem may disappear.  
I'll bear this in mind, though, if there is still a problem.

> Restoring is then done by "cat"-ing all those parts together again:
>
>    cat x?? | dd bs=32k skip=1 | gtar -xvpGf -
>
> If you got the diskspace...

Hmmmm.....

Anne

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