On Tuesday 14 November 2006 15:02, Frank Smith wrote: >Gardiner Leverett wrote: >> I'm having a similar problem someone reported earlier. >> I have a subdirectory I'm tying to archive with gtar from >> the client "arnold". It failed, so I subdivided it into >> smaller pieces. For example, I have about 10 user directories, >> so I have a config for the directories a-b, c-d, e-g, h-m, and n-z. >> >> Here's what I get: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> >>> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: >>> arnold /z/workareas-eg lev 0 FAILED [mesg read: Connection reset by >> >> peer] >> >>> arnold /z/workareas-cd lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 >>> instead >> >> of 32768] >> >>> arnold /z/workareas-ab lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 >>> instead >> >> of 32768] >> >>> arnold /z/workareas-eg lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry] >>> arnold /z/workareas-eg lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 >>> instead >> >> of 32768] >> >>> arnold /z/workareas-cd lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry] >>> arnold /z/workareas-cd lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 >>> instead >> >> of 32768] >> >>> arnold /z/workareas-ab lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry] >>> arnold /z/workareas-ab lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 >>> instead >> >> of 32768] >> >> And in the dump summary, I get this: >>> DUMP SUMMARY: >>> arnold -rkareas-ab 0 FAILED >>> arnold -rkareas-cd 0 FAILED >>> arnold -rkareas-eg 0 N/A 242 -- N/A N/A N/A N/A >>> PARTIAL arnold -rkareas-hm 0 242 32 13.3 25:58 158.9 >>> 0:0311598.7 arnold -rkareas-nz 0 106 22 21.1 10:58 164.6 >>> 0:0211269.6 >>> >>> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.5.0b1-20051205) >> >> Any idea why I get two of the sub sections, partail of one, and >> nothing from the >> other two? > >What version of tar are you using? It might be related to what I >saw in my recent posting, where tar 1.16 now returns an error code >of 1 when a file changes during the run. Previous versions returned >a 2 in that case, which I think just caused Amanda to flag it as >STRANGE, but a 1 is interpreted as failed, so Amanda retries from the >beginning until either it works or you hit 'too many dumper retries', >whatever number that is. I haven't seen any replies on what 'PARTIAL' >means. > >Frank
And one more time, tar eats our lunch. OTOH, note his amanda version number, wasn't there problems with that one? ISTR it ate my lunch, several times a few months ago. -- Cheers, Gene
