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
