could be. I guess I was tired :) and focusing on the fact that I used solaris /bin/compress, and was hoping that if I did compression with gzip, my results would improve. So it was wishful thinking that we werent talking about the same thing, because I was hoping that putting in a new gzip would magically solve my problems:)
But if the problem (hypothesizing) is something like gnutar getting confused and thinking it encountered an end of file mark when it didnt because it encountered some particular unlikely character in the compressed file, then this is a really ugly problem, if one is counting on gnutar for anything. (as someone I know says: Backups are great.. But the really important thing is being able to restore :) I tried using gnutar to backup/restore a .Z file which amanda/gnutar died on, (without including the various options, such as exclude patterns, and incremental, etc) and it had no problems with the same file.. so I'm suspecting this bug is tickled by certain options being used. Do you know if the backup you had problems with was an incremental? exclude patterns? etc? Chris Dahn wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2001 04:33 pm, s leonard wrote: > > I'm not understanding you. It sounds like you are saying that you used > > some version of tar which was not able to tar/untar a .tgz file?? this is > > not the case here. > > Okay, now I'm confused. You said in your first email: > > > What happens is that if one of these large compressed files is > > encountered by the amanda backup, it silently stops backing up anything > > on that filesystem at that > > point, and if the file is restored, it is a truncated/corrupted > > version of the original file. gnutar has no problem backing > > up/restoring larger (3.9 g) tarballs which are not compressed. > > I am saying that I just ran into the same problem with a tar file I have on > cd. It died while reading a compressed (gzipped) tarball on a filesystem. I > need to do some more testing to find out exactly what the parameters of the > problem are, but it sounds like we're talking about the same thing.
