>From top: Mem: 360M Active, 2736M Inact, 262M Wired, 148M Cache, 112M Buf, 5008K Free Swap: 8192M Total, 784K Used, 8191M Free
I'm still getting that weird error 2, even after following Sergey's advice and upgrading gtar to 1.16.2 -- Mark Hennessy > -----Original Message----- > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Mark Hennessy > Subject: Re: Question about gtar error 1 and scheduling > > 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. > >
