On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 at 12:04pm, Jonathan Murray wrote

> 1) Can amanda back up and restore xfs file systems on IRIX box? I have 
> one IRIX box that uses efs that appears to back up fine (restores never 
> work, but that's another problem) and one that uses xfs that I can't get 
> to work with either dump or tar. Both tar and dump fail on the system 
> using xfs filesystem with disk offline errors even though amcheck 
> appears happy.

To use dump on an xfs filesystem, the IRIX box must have xfsdump 
installed, and amanda must have found it at ./configure time.  tar should 
work, however.  Time to go through the debug logs for the tar backups.

> 2) Is amrecover a secondary component that is installed separately? The 
> UNIX backup and Recovery book indicates amrecover is run from the 
> client, however, it doesn't appear to be part of a client installation.

Nope -- amrecover is installed even when you do --without-server.  Well, 
unless you did --without-amrecover... :)

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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