On Wednesday 11 April 2007, John Stoffel wrote:
>>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> writes:
>
>Jan> On Apr 10 2007 23:54, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>>> So fix tar to not do silly things.
>>>>>> Kernel major:minor numbers are not stable.
>>>>>
>>>>> YOU Tell that to the tar/star people, they are flabbergasted that
>>>>> its not stable. It apparently is for every other OS tar can be run
>>>>> on.
>>>>
>>>> FreeBSD also seems to be quite "dynamic".
>>>> /dev/da0 is (0,92) for the 'fixit shell' -- how about you?
>>>
>>> I don't have such a beast here. Whats that supposed to do?
>
>Jan> Well I was just pointing out that Linux is not the only one to
>Jan> have device numbers (for promiment block-backed storage) that can
>Jan> move across reboots.
>
>I guess one work around would be to export your local filesystems via
>NFS and then have amanda back them up that way, which means gnutar
>should then ignore the devmajor and devminor numbers.
>
>Or you could just use a hack of the perl script 'tarcust' to hack the
>minor/major numbers stored in the index files, and make them match the
>current major/minor pair for each filesystem just before you do a
>backup.
>
>A total hack, but probably what I would do, since gtar should (IMNSHO)
>just ignore the devmajor/devminor and just go by the name. It's not
>like the sysadmin can't shoot himself in the foot anyway.
>
>Or, again, get away from Amanda and tar and instead move to Bacula.
>Smarter software.
>
>John
Does Bacula not use tar for its dirty work?
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Cheers, Gene
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