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  From: Jason Tan <jason@rebel.rebel.net.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:26:39 +0930 (CST)

Re: Amanda problem

On Wed, 22 May 2002, David Lloyd wrote:

> 
> Jason
> 
> > Can anyone tell me if they know of any differneces between the way amanda
> > does backups for tar based backups and dump based backups.
> 
> One uses tar and the other uses dump [this isn't being facetious but
> that actually _is_ the difference]; at the end of the day amanda simply
> pipes data at a program as though it were coming in via standard input.

I think soemthing else over and abvoe the which
archive/backup prgram it sues is different.

> 
> > If I revert that disk to root-tar in the disklist it all runs fine again.
> > 
> > BTW when I say runs fine or doesnt run fine above I mean amcheck
> > <configuration> runs fine or not, NOT the actaul dumps ruin fine or not.
> > 
> > Any suggestons would be very wlecome, I'm afraid Im rather stumped.
> 
> Amanda is particularly cantankerous but one gets used to it.
> 
> Have you tried:
> 
> 1) logging in as the amanda user
> 2) running dump

Yes.

It seems to work.
I can dump for example amanda's log file dir as the amanda user.

Jason

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