On Monday 05 February 2007 09:57, Mark Hennessy wrote:
>Thanks for telling me about that.  I have updated that and now it
> doesn't die on error 1 anymore on a L0 backup of that disk.
>
>I was originally using the 2.51p2 release, not the latest snapshot.
>
>Now I'm seeing another problem, this time with the incremental backup of
> the same disk.
>AMANDA and gtar try to do an L1 of that same disk and this is what I
> get: ? gtar: memory exhausted

That's pretty plainly stated, how much ram is in that box?

>? gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>sendbackup: error [dump (6349) /usr/local/bin/gtar returned 2]
>
>Any advice?
>
>--
> Mark Hennessy
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jean-Louis Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:50 AM
>> To: Mark Hennessy
>> Cc: Amanda Users
>> Subject: Re: Question about gtar error 1 and scheduling
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> Install latest amanda 2.5.1p2 snapshot from
>> http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php,
>> or wait for 2.5.1p3, it will be release next week.
>>
>> Jean-Louis
>>
>> Mark Hennessy wrote:
>> > I'm using AMANDA 2.51p2 and gtar 1.16.
>> >
>> > I want to make AMANDA ignore any error 1 response from gtar
>>
>> and react like it
>>
>> > has not FAILED.
>> >
>> > This would make AMANDA accept the backup as successful with
>>
>> STRANGE and then
>>
>> > AMANDA wouldn't have to run a second attempt in the same
>>
>> run and then retry
>>
>> > the next run.
>> >
>> > This is the error I see:
>> > | Total bytes written: 129261885440 (121GiB, 2.0MiB/s)
>> >
>> > sendbackup: error [/usr/local/bin/gtar returned 1]
>> >
>> > How can I do that? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > I'm using GNU tar 1.16
>> >
>> > From NEWS for GNU tar 1.16:
>> > version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
>> >
>> > * After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some
>>
>> files were
>>
>> > changed while being read.  Previous versions exited with
>>
>> code 2 (fatal
>>
>> > error), and only if some files were truncated while being archived.
>> >
>> > I think that due to the fact that the e-mail files are in
>>
>> constant flux I
>>
>> > have a very low chance of not getting an error code 1 no
>>
>> matter when I run
>>
>> > the backup.
>> >
>> > --
>> >  Mark Hennessy

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