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2007-10-06 20:32:16

Subject:	Re: backup is done , but they are not in tar file format !!!!
From:	"Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To:	"amanda AT unixplanet DOT biz" <amanda AT unixplanet DOT biz>
Date:	Sat, 6 Oct 2007 19:35:23 -0500

On 10/6/07, amanda AT unixplanet DOT biz <amanda AT unixplanet DOT biz> wrote:
> I have just set up Disk Based Amanda backup , and every thing is fine,
> I can do backup my files from remote computer,
> but backed up files are not in tar format, here is my config, would
> you please let me know why backed up files are not ending with tar
> and tar can not open it.

The files *contain* tar-formatted data, but also have headers.  To see
the header:
 dd if=dumpfile bs=1k count=32 | less
which will give instructions for a bare-metal recovery.

Dustin

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Storage Software Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com

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