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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:40:32 +1000

Re: Amanda backups (again)

At 09:10 AM 2/14/01 +1030, Matthew Geddes wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm having more trouble with my Amanda configuration. It did look like
>the tapes were at fault, but brand new tapes haven't made a scrap of
>difference (except to the IT budget). Whenever I try to restore from
>tape, gzip returns an error, telling me 'Invalid compressed data--format
>violated'. I have checked for open files (most of the machines just
>share things out using Samba, so I stopped Samba well before the backups
>started and restarted it after).
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can find the solution to
>this problem?

Does/did the drive do compression? Did you change the drive, or have you
somehow got a setup where Amanda uses hardware compression, but you do not?

>Thanks,
>Matt
>
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Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba


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