At 04:35 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, John R. Jackson, you wrote:
> >I've been successfully using amanda for my backups, starting with 2.4.1 and
> >now up to 2.4.2p2.  ...
>
>Ooooh.  An old-timer :-).


Oooohhh, ouch ... the sting ...


> >sendsize-gnutar: error opening
> >/usr/local/amanda/var/gnutar-lists/doris.gw.utexas.edu__0: No such file or
> >directory
> >...
>
>When Amanda uses GNU tar it tells it to keep track of everything backed
>up (and some other info) in one of the gnutar-lists files.  Those files
>have the level number encoded.  When Amanda wants to do something with
>level N it first copies the file for that level to a temp name and lets
>GNU tar use that.  If the tar fails, the original is still safe.
>
>In both cases, Amanda could not find the level 0 gnutar-list file.
>The only way that could happen is if it was removed somehow.  Any chance
>that happened?  Or is something else going on here with this particular
>configuration (i.e. do you have one of the "odd" strategy options
>turned on)?
>
>If nothing pops to mind, you should be able to "amadmin <config> force"
>those two disks and get Amanda to rebuild the level 0 files on the
>next run.


There is nothing in  /usr/local/amanda/var/gnutar-lists right now.  I've 
been using dump and this is my first attempt at trying to use tar for backups.

So I may be reaching here but ... this error message sounds purely 
informational then.  There is no file with that name, BUT, after the backup 
is completed, there will be a filename there with that name.


oscar

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