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 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
