Have you considered doing tar based backups instead of dumps?

-Tom

On 1/19/10 11:52 AM, Jim Green wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Thanks very much for the replies, especially Tim who pointed us
> to the rpms at the amanda website.  It turns out the their prebuilt
> binaries also lack xfs support, but that the source rpms for the
> stable release do build (sort of) cleanly.
>
> We've now installed, configured and tested the rpms, backing up and
> restoring a 30GB file of /dev/urandom output in double-quick time,
> excellent!
>
> There are a couple of wrinkles involved in the rpm build, I've attached
> a script which created the ones that we use in case others come across
> the same problem.
>
> Thanks again all.
>
> Jim