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  From: Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  To  : Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 08:29:44 +0930 (CST)

Re: Amanda problem

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Dan Shearer wrote:

> On Wed, 22 May 2002, David Lloyd wrote:
> 
> > Older versions of GNU-TAR (most notably those shipping with RedHat 6.X)
> > would report the most strange estimates to amanda thereby totally
> > confusing amanda and causing all sorts of unexpected errors. On the
> > other hand, the dump that is shipped with RedHat 7.1 has a tendency to
> > fall over on bigger file systems.
> 
> Yes, and there are other problems of this category too. I probably should
> have said "given known-good versions of gnutar, dump-for-your-OS and
> Amanda, which should be used and when?"
> 
> I was expecting (and still do :-) that the answer to my question will talk
> about things like Irix or Solaris. I have tested 64-bitness which doesn't
> seem to swing it one way or another.

Maybe it is more a matter of understanding when various operating systems
stopped being compatible by default with BSD dump/restore.

Or, from another poiint of view, when (if ever) did GNU tar become good
enough to move a BSD root filesystem and get it right? I have moved root
filesystems on BSD but only by using the recommended dump/restore method.

--
Dan Shearer
dan@tellurian.com.au

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