Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:27:43PM -0700)
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> > I'd rather not use gtar, due to previous bad experiences with it.
>
> What were thos ebad experiences ?
Unfortunately, it's been a while, and I don't remember exactly. It
seems like gtar would sometimes die in the middle of backups for no
good reason; I don't remember what error message it would output, but
it seemed equivalent to, "I can't read this file." Then it would die,
in spite of the --ignore-failed-read that amanda gives it. Even
worse, it was exiting with a status of 0.
At that point, I'd have a partial backup of one filesystem, and amanda
thought it was a complete backup. I never figured out a way to tell
amanda that one particular backup from a backup run had failed, so I
was left with a choice between invalidating the whole night's backups
or leaving the bad backup in.
Chris
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