John R. Jackson wrote:
> 
> This would be a more accurate test:
> 
>   dump 0sf 1048576 - /dev/sda5 | (restore -tvf - ; cat > /dev/null)

Suprisingly that ran fine:

dir     478497  ./kerberos/sbin
leaf    478498  ./kerberos/sbin/sserver
leaf       176  ./tmp

  DUMP: 81.09% done at 8174 kB/s, finished in 0:01
  DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Thu Jan 17 12:56:51 2002
  DUMP: Volume 1 3248140 tape blocks (3172.01MB)
  DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:06:42
  DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 8079 kB/s
  DUMP: 3248140 tape blocks (3172.01MB)
  DUMP: finished in 402 seconds, throughput 8079 kBytes/sec
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jan 17 12:50:03 2002
  DUMP: Date this dump completed:  Thu Jan 17 12:56:51 2002
  DUMP: Average transfer rate: 8079 kB/s
  DUMP: DUMP IS DONE


> As to your original problem, I agree with Joshua that it sounds like a
> gzip problem.  Note the following:
> 
>   compress got signal 24
> 
> What is signal number 24 on your OS (grep -w 24 /usr/include/sys/signal.h)?

I thought the compress getting signal 24 was from the dump returning
signal 3.  I'm getting these signal numbers from the signal man page.
Signal 3 is "Quit from keyboard"
Signal 24 is "Stop typed at tty"

> My next guess would be that you've hit a 2 GByte boundary someplace.
> How much data are you dumping on the file systems that fail?  Are there
> some that are under 2 GBytes that work?

I've got gzip 1.3.2 on both client and server.  I've got working large
partitions on some other systems - including the tape host:
/dev/sda1              4386344   2418076   1745368  58% /home

> > runtar: error [must be invoked by operator]
> 
> As Joshua said, this has got to be a problem for doing backups of that
> client.  When you built Amanda for that client (however that happened),
> it was told it would be run by "operator".  That isn't happening and
> runtar is failing.
> 
> This would only affect the backups done with GNU tar (/home), but it is
> fatal for that one.  You either need to rebuild Amanda for that client
> and set --with-user to "backup" or start running amandad as "operator"
> on that client.

My config.status file on the troublesome client says:

# ./configure  --prefix=/usr/local/pkg/amanda-2.4.2p2 --with-user=backup 
--with-config=hmcis --with-group=sys

The files in /usr/local/pkg/amanda/libexec are owned by a mixture of
backup:sys and root:sys.  I've got a .amandahosts file that's been
fine for the dumps.
Amanda's running as operator on the tape host.  Do I have to use the
same user on both server and client if I'm using gnutar?
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