Hi, Since a few days one of my DLEs consistently fails with:
| /-- anakin /home/src lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line] | sendbackup: start [anakin:/home/src level 1] | sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar | sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f - ... | sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz | sendbackup: info end | ? gtar: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_src_1.new: Missing record terminator | ? gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now | sendbackup: error [no backup size line] sendbackup.20061125005608.debug has: | sendbackup: start: anakin:/home/src lev 1 | sendbackup: time 0.000: spawning /bin/gzip in pipeline | sendbackup: argument list: /bin/gzip --fast | sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.001: pid 8618: /bin/gzip --fast | sendbackup-gnutar: time 7.362: doing level 1 dump as listed-incremental from '/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_src_0' to '/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_src_1.new' | sendbackup-gnutar: time 7.407: doing level 1 dump from date: 2006-11-20 12:45:43 GMT | sendbackup: time 7.419: started index creator: "/bin/tar -tf - 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\.//'" | sendbackup: time 7.420: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline | sendbackup: argument list: runtar DailySet1 gtar --create --file - --directory /home --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_src_1.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from /tmp/amanda/sendbackup._home_src.20061125005616.exclude --files-from /tmp/amanda/sendbackup._home_src.20061125005616.include | sendbackup-gnutar: time 7.423: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 8623 | sendbackup: time 7.423: started backup | sendbackup: time 13.134: 118: strange(?): gtar: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_src_1.new: Missing record terminator | sendbackup: time 13.148: 118: strange(?): gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now | sendbackup: time 13.162: index created successfully | sendbackup: time 13.163: error [no backup size line] | sendbackup: time 13.163: pid 8616 finish time Sat Nov 25 00:56:21 2006 Anyone with a clue? Could this be /var running out of diskspace? I'm using Debian, with Amanda 2.5.1p1-2 and tar 1.16-1. 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