On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Frank Smith wrote: > Glenn English wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > The backup works and verifies, but the report says: > > > >> planner: disk zbox.slsware.lan:/usr/bin, estimate of level 2 failed. > >> planner: disk zbox.slsware.lan:/var, estimate of level 1 failed. > >> planner: disk zbox.slsware.lan:/home, estimate of level 1 failed. > >> planner: disk zbox.slsware.lan:/boot, estimate of level 1 failed. > >> planner: disk zbox.slsware.lan:/, estimate of level 1 failed. > > > > for every DLE on this host. It does level 0s, so things get backed up. > > And it "just started; I didn't change anything". Any explanations? > > Yes, you updated your packages and got tar 1.15.91, which changed > something related to --listed-incremental. I believe there is a > current snapshot of Amanda that addresses that issue, but you might > want to just revert to a previous version of tar, as 1.15.91 also > has an issue with using --one-file-system in conjunction with the > --listed-incremental option that causes it to leak out of the > base filesystem,
Indeed. The only way to get my backups working again was downgrading to tar from sarge: apt-get install tar=1.14-2.2 > > Debian Linux, testing; VERSION="Amanda-2.5.0p2"; installed by apt-get. > > This is the Amanda host; these DLEs are local disks. The hosts on the > > nets are fine. > > > > Does that first entry mean that the level 1 worked but the 2 didn't? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds