Re: xfsdump & compression? (was: Re: xfsdump aborts after assertion failure)

["Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@berdmann.de>]

> Btw.: talking about xfsdump: Is there a tool/addon that writes a tape
> catalog, so I can locate data without a tape beeing inserted ? The
> contents of /var/xfsdump seems more some kind of meta-data.Would be
> really nice to be able to browe some kind of database to see on which
> tapes what files are located.

Amanda (http://www.amanda.org/) is a nice tool keeping a catalogue. You
can browse it with an FTP-like interface no matter if you used
dump/xfsdump/ufsdump/backup/tar for backup. The index is stored in
gzipped plain text. If you're really lost in space, you can even zgrep
for your files.