Jon

Well it's not happy - amanda is constantly trying to do a level 0. So 
it's seeing this as a fail.

--
Martin

Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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.
> 



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