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Hi there -- I just reverted the tarcat change on the front page because I don't see how it's related to Amanda. When Amanda splits dumps into multiple on-tape files, it does so by breaking the tarfile without regard to its contents (that is, without tar's knowing about it to add a new header) and adding an Amanda header. Furthermore, even if tarcat could reassemble these files, Amanda already has a utility to take care of this -- [[amfetchdump]] can reassemble split dumps into a single tarfile as necessary. | Hi there -- I just reverted the tarcat change on the front page because I don't see how it's related to Amanda. When Amanda splits dumps into multiple on-tape files, it does so by breaking the tarfile without regard to its contents (that is, without tar's knowing about it to add a new header) and adding an Amanda header. Furthermore, even if tarcat could reassemble these files, Amanda already has a utility to take care of this -- [[amfetchdump]] can reassemble split dumps into a single tarfile as necessary. | ||
Please don't feel that my revert is final or irreversible. Rather, let's discuss the relevance of the utility first, and then we can look at ways to include it in the Amanda distribution, in the manpages, or elsewhere in the wiki. For maximal community involvement, either of the amanda-users or amanda-hackers lists would be best, but please also feel free to carry on the discussion here. | Please don't feel that my revert is final or irreversible. Rather, let's discuss the relevance of the utility first, and then we can look at ways to include it in the Amanda distribution, in the manpages, or elsewhere in the wiki. For maximal community involvement, either of the amanda-users or amanda-hackers lists would be best, but please also feel free to carry on the discussion here. --[[User:Dustin|Dustin]] 18:08, 5 July 2007 (PDT) | ||
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Hi there -- I just reverted the tarcat change on the front page because I don't see how it's related to Amanda. When Amanda splits dumps into multiple on-tape files, it does so by breaking the tarfile without regard to its contents (that is, without tar's knowing about it to add a new header) and adding an Amanda header. Furthermore, even if tarcat could reassemble these files, Amanda already has a utility to take care of this -- amfetchdump can reassemble split dumps into a single tarfile as necessary.
Please don't feel that my revert is final or irreversible. Rather, let's discuss the relevance of the utility first, and then we can look at ways to include it in the Amanda distribution, in the manpages, or elsewhere in the wiki. For maximal community involvement, either of the amanda-users or amanda-hackers lists would be best, but please also feel free to carry on the discussion here. --Dustin 18:08, 5 July 2007 (PDT)