On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 at 8:50pm, Sunil Shukla wrote > I would like to know what is the difference between > STRANGE messages and FAILED messages. I have been getting the > following message which I am including it below.
STRANGE means that the backup program (GNUtar in your case) reported a message that amanda didn't expect but kept going. The NORMAL messages (the ones amanda expects) for tar can be seen in client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c. FAILED means that the backup program returned a non-zero status upon finish or crashed -> no image. > 1. Whether backup continues for that particular directory/filesystem > after coming across any STRANGE error or Does it aborts the > backup for that particular disklist. Anything that's not markes as FAILED made it to tape. But you should investigate the STRANGE messages to see if they mean anything important. In your case... > ? gtar: ./log/apache_perl/vitalect/access_log: file changed as we > read it > ? gtar: ./log/vitalect/access_log: file changed as we read it That means exactly what it says. You're backing up active filesystems, and they are changing as they're being backed up. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
