On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: > Hi all > > well I've been fiddle with my new shiney iMac G4 trying to get amanda to > back the thing up. Currently I'm getting this from the backup report.. > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > stuartdmg4 / lev 0 FAILED [/usr/bin/gnutar returned 2] > [ snipped part and rearranged next line ] > > sendbackup: argument list: gtar --create --file - --directory / --one-file-system > --listed-incremental /var/amanda/gnutar-lists/stuartdmg4__0.new --sparse > --ignore-failed-read --totals .
[ snipped part ] > sendbackup: index created successfully > error [/usr/bin/gnutar returned 2] > sendbackup: pid 588 finish time Wed Jun 26 01:11:36 2002 Note: amanda uses the "--ignore-failed-read" option to tar. To not use this would cause tar to abort if it ever failed to read a file successfully. Even something as benign as file removed before tar got to it. But generally permissions problems. When using this flag, and encountering one or more failed reads, tar exits with a status of 2 rather than 0. This is what amanda is telling you. The interpretation is that tar had to skip one or more files. I don't know of any way to determine which files. The rest of the dump should be fine. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
