Your version of tar is broken...get the latest from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ . You want 1.13.19 or later.
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Heller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getting further I am getting further with Amanda. I ran a backup last night but had a problem: error [/bin/tar returned 2] This problem has come up in the past (searched the group) but there seems to be no specific reason for this. I'm using tar version: tar (GNU tar) 1.13.11 I'm trying to backup: /boot always-full / comp-root-tar /big comp-root-tar With the result: DUMP SUMMARY: DUMPER STATS TAPER STATS HOSTNAME DISK L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS KB/s MMM:SS KB/s -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------ 216.13.244.1 / 0 FAILED --------------------------------------- 216.13.244.1 /big 0 1216126011274432 92.7 144:011304.7 144:021304.7 216.13.244.1 /boot 0 14560 14592 -- 0:027555.8 0:111374.2 I'm not exactly sure why I can backup two partitions but not the third (root). Is this a permissions issue? I exclude the following: ./mnt ./proc ./no_backup ./backup ./download ./usr/doc ./usr/man ./usr/src ./var/spool/mqueue Thanks for any help or direction you can provide. Mike
