Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:37:11PM +0000, Bruce S. Skinner wrote: > > > > My last dozen or so emails to amanda-users have gone into a black > > hole, I'll try this from another network under another subject. > > > > > > So let's try and walk (crawl?) before we run. > > > > I've set things up with only one small disk to be backed up, set > > dumpcycle 0 and removed the holding disk and tape changer from the > > config. It's still failing. There is a signal 13 (PIPE) error in > > sendbackup.debug. > > > > This will likely not assist you, just for information sake. > > Most amanda admins don't realize that when indexing is on > there are actually two tars that run. One does the actual > creation of the archive. The output of this command is > duplicated (think of the unix tee command) with one copy > going to the holding disk or tape drive as appropriate. > The second copy of the newly created archive is send to > another tar which reads through it and creates a "table > of contents" which is the index.
I was aware of this. It also was failing and I had disabled indexing for my testing. > It has been my impression from the posted articles that > about 90% of the tar pipe errors are from this second > tar, the one creating the index from the archive, not > the tar creating the archive itself. I'd be happy to > be told I'm all wrong, but it seems to be a fragile > part of amanda that manifests itself inconsistantly > and in such a way as to not be analyzable (sp?). > People who have the problem seem to fumble around > making changes and it goes away without them being > able to point to a specific reason for the repair. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- Bruce S. Skinner Defence R&D Canada - Atlantic 9 Grove St. <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P.O. Box 1012 <http://www.drdc-rddc.dnd.ca> Dartmouth NS CANADA tel: (902) 426-3100 x205 B2Y 3Z7 fax: (902) 426-9654
