/home is not NFS mounted and the directories are not transient (they are the actual home dirs of individual users). runtar is seduid root. I tryed to run the gtar command from the log file manually as root, and found that it ONLY works when I run it from /home:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /home/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /opt/sfw/bin/gtar --create --file /dev/null --directory /home --one-file-system --listed-incremental /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/rozi.cab.u-szeged.hu_home_h0_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --files-from /tmp/amanda/sendsize._home__h0.20031113235902.include 2>&1|less
But then how is it possible that sendsize (or whatever other program) can collect the filenames in /tmp/amanda/sendsize._home__h0.20031113235902.include but gtar fails unless started from /home (note that the --directory /home is present on the command line which should cd to /home....). Any idea? How should I specify the include/exclude directives in the disklist entries?
There must be something special about that /home partition.
Give us as much info as possible.
What version of gtar are you using?
What are the mount options of that filesystem?
How is this extremely large filesytem created (one large disk? volume manager? ...)
- -- Paul @ Home
