gmirror device numbers

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 11/04/07, Toomas Aas <toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a server with gmirror volumes. Backup of this server is being done
> with Amanda, which uses GNU tar and its --listed-incremental option
> (snapshot files) in order to do incremental backups.
>
> It seems that gmirror devices get a different 'device number' on each boot
> (each time the gmirror is created). Since the device number is stored in
> GNU tar's snapshot file, it effectively means that after rebooting GNU tar
> sees all files as having been changed since previous backup. This causes
> huge incremental backups.
>
> Is there a way to force a gmirror device to have a 'fixed' device number?

Not to sound too thick, but what do you mean
by "device number"?  Is this the Geom name:
or ID: field when you type:
gmirror list

-- 
--