On Sunday 08 April 2007, dustin AT zmanda DOT com wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:53PM -0500, Marc Mengel wrote:
>> Couldn't someone hack up a utility to do a major number swapout in the
>> file where tar keeps track of what is in the last
>> incremental/full/etc.?
>
>That's what I suggested in
>
>  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/62562
>
>I'm a little busy to work on it at the moment, if you're interested in
>taking up the task!
>
>Dustin

I'm all for it, as it could be included in GenesAmandaHelper's as a 
preliminary task to be run in front of the backup itself.  Now the 
question that comes to mind about such a utility is, what if tar is also 
sensitive to the change-date of these files, would that not defeat the 
purpose?

I rebooted last night, to the same kernel as before but as a new build 
because I'd wanted to test something else, and the device-mapper thing 
moved again, so for 3 nights in a row, amanda has been disturbed and told 
to restart from square one.  My vtapes disk is 96% full, so I had to 
reduce the size of the vtape back to something reasonably sane for a 
180GB partition.

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