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
