* Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050824 17:08]: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:59:03PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In the last few days I've been getting this error: > > > > [/usr/freeware/bin/tar returned 2] > > Return code (exit status) 2 seems, I think, to be reserved by tar > for non-fatal situations from which it can continue doing its archive. > Gnutar reports the file caused problems and sets a flag that causes > an exit status of 2 when it gets to the normal end point. > > ... > > sendsize[133766]: time 9395.075: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: ./dev/fd: Cannot > > savedir: Function not implemented > > sendsize[133766]: time 9458.503: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: ./dev/fd: Warning: > > Cannot savedir: Function not implemented > > sendsize[133766]: time 9477.462: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: ./dev/entropy: > > socket ignored > > sendsize[133766]: time 9479.274: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: > > ./opt/prngd/egd-pool: socket ignored > > sendsize[133766]: time 9550.026: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: > > ./var/spool/pbs/server_priv/jobs/70085.shado.JB: Warning: Cannot stat: No > > such file or directory > > sendsize[133766]: time 9550.034: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: > > ./var/spool/pbs/server_priv/jobs/70085.shado.SC: Warning: Cannot stat: No > > such file or directory > > sendsize[133766]: time 9551.503: Total bytes written: 3056629760 (2.8GB, > > 18MB/s) > > sendsize[133766]: time 9551.510: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: Error exit delayed > > from previous errors > > sendsize[133766]: time 9551.510: ..... > ... > > > > > > Any clue? > > > Looks to me like: > > Some devices, sockets and whatever fd is (file descriptor, floppy > disk, ???) could not be handled by tar and two temporary spool files > existed when tar looked at the directory listing but had already > disappeared when tar tried to get their size, ownership, ... > > Maybe some exclude's are needed?
Thanks John for the pointers. What I fail to understand is that DLE has been backed up for quite a while without this error ever appearing and all of a sudden gtar burps on the /dev/fd directory (and yes, /dev/fd contains file descriptor files on irix). The gnu ls also doesn't grok /dev/fd as well...hmmm, strange. In any case I changed gnutar for xfsdump and I'll see what goes on when the backup completes. regards, jf > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- <° ><