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. >
