On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 at 1:12pm, Michael Hicks wrote > I'm having some trouble estimating dump sizes. I have two Solaris 7 > machines where I compiled tar 1.13.25 (they were previously running a > packaged 1.13 version, but the index files generated by that version were > corrupt). It appears that when tar is told to get an estimate, it > immediately fails, and these systems appear to be the first ones to report > back to the server in the log files (even being faster than the tape label > re-writing). > *snip* > > I suspect I must have built a bad version of tar somehow. Anyone know what > the problem might be, or how to test the build of tar that I have without > going through a whole amdump cycle? > You can see exactly how tar is dying by looking in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug on the Solaris client(s). The exact tar command line amanda is trying to execute should be in there as well, so you can try to get that to run by hand.
Good luck. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
