On Monday 05 February 2007 11:03, Mark Hennessy wrote: >The machine has 3GB of RAM and 8GB of available swap. >It's running FreeBSD 6.2 and AMANDA 2.51p2-20070202 with GNU tar 1.16 > from FreeBSD ports patchlevel 2. > Humm, darn, that seems to be more than sufficient, I have a gig on this board & about 3GB of swap it never uses and have never seen that error.
In simpler terms, that was my best shot at it. Has anyone else a clue? Does the boot log show all 3GB of that ram? >-- > Mark Hennessy > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:00 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: Mark Hennessy; Jean-Louis Martineau >> Subject: Re: Question about gtar error 1 and scheduling >> >> 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. -- 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.
