I'm actually running AMANDA 2.51p3 now, sorry about the confusion caused by my mistake in the subject.
How would I set this gtar setting with AMANDA? Would it be in the source for sendbackup-gnutar? Does anyone know what the proper parameter would be? Tar has to archive a tree containing 130GB of data and there are 3GB of RAM on the machine performing the backups. -- Mark Hennessy > -----Original Message----- > From: David W. Schuler > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:14 AM > To: Mark Hennessy > Subject: Re: AMANDA 2.51p2 and gtar 1.16.1 and error 2 > > Hi Mark: > > I'm not an Amanda user... but just keep tabs on Amanda to remain aware > of what is happening in this space. I do, however, use GNU tar with > various tape drives and layouts... and that's why I'm > painfully familiar > with this error. > > For the tar command, it's the "-b" flag that controls the blocksize. > > Unfortunately, I can't relate this to where it is stored in > Amanda, nor > in what blocksizes Amanda might use. > > Sorry... > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > David W. Schuler > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:05:27 EST "Mark Hennessy" wrote: > >Where is that setting kept? > > > >-- > > Mark Hennessy > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: David W. Schuler > >> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:05 AM > >> To: Mark Hennessy > >> Subject: Re: AMANDA 2.51p2 and gtar 1.16.1 and error 2 > >> > >> I have seen this error when the tape blocksize is not > >> specified correctly > >> to GNU tar. It has nothing to do with memory. > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> David W. Schuler > >> > >> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:26:47 EST "Mark Hennessy" wrote: > >> >What could be causing this error? > >> > > >> >sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/bin/gtar > >> >sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/local/bin/gtar -f - ... > >> >sendbackup: info end > >> >? gtar: memory exhausted > >> >? gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > >> >sendbackup: error [dump (9459) /usr/local/bin/gtar returned 2] > >> > > >> >The path being backed up contains about 125GB of data. L0's > >> work fine, but > >> >L1's always die with that error above. > >> > > >> >I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 and AMANDA and gtar compiled from source. > >> > > >> >-- > >> > Mark Hennessy
