Amanda-Users

Re: tar's default block size & shoe-shinning

2006-06-19 09:15:48
Subject: Re: tar's default block size & shoe-shinning
From: Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:09:28 -0400
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:59:16PM +0200, Cyrille Bollu enlightened us:
> indeed...
> 
> Thank you for your answers Joshua, I will try a "dd" with bs=2048k. Then 
> probably I will compile amanda... 
> 
> Bouh I don't like to do that in a production environment....
>

Understandable. I have some tips at
http://www.math.ohiou.edu/~hyclak/casit/amanda/ for using Amanda on RPM
based systems. I recommend you rebuild the SRPM anyway, to get rid of
necessary but bad default compilation settings.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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