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  From: Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@iocane.com.au>
  To  : Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au>
  Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:29:01 +1030

Re: Amanda backups (again)

Matthew Geddes wrote:

>> What happens when you take Amanda out of the equation?  What
>> does a tar czvf to the tape device do?  What does a
>> "file - < /dev/rmt-whatever" say?

> I did a dd if=/dev/nst0 out to a file and that worked (it's roughly the
> right size). doing a 'file' on it tells me that is a gzip'd tar file.
> trying to gunzip it gives the same error.

But you still haven't isolated whether it's the save or restore from
Amanda that's breaking.  All you are doing is restoring a possibly
corrupt file to begin with.  So again, what does a "tar czvf to the
tape device" do?  Are you able to read that archive?


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Regards,
  Daryl Tester,  Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.

"You shouldn't mix meditation with management.  The mind gets too empty."
  -- Dilbert

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