On Thursday 09 April 2009, John Hein wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote at 10:05 -0400 on Apr 9, 2009: > > On Thursday 09 April 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > >> Uptime is about 5 days now, but this may be the beginning of the end. > > >> Something made it think all data was new from the looks of this. This > > >> was the first run of 20090323, 20090321 works fine. Another device > > >> mapper screwup? It was updated by yum yesterday. > > > > > >That seems the most likely cause. > > > > > >Dustin > > > > Yeas, but I thought we had worked out something that made amanda immune > > to those little annoyances? Or was tar changed and the fix didn't work > > now? > > > > [ama...@coyote GenesAmandaHelper-0.6]$ tar --version > > tar (GNU tar) 1.20 > >[snip] > > > Here is the amgtar stanza from amanda.conf: > > > > define application-tool app_amgtar { > > comment "amgtar" > > plugin "amgtar" > > #property "GNUTAR-PATH" "/path/to/gtar" > > #property "GNUTAR-LISTDIR" "/path/to/gnutar_list_dir" > > #default from gnutar_list_dir setting in amanda-client.conf > > #property "ONE-FILE-SYSTEM" "yes" #use '--one-file-system' option > > #property "SPARSE" "yes" #use '--sparse' option > > #property "ATIME-PRESERVE" "yes" #use '--atime-preserve=system' > > option property "CHECK-DEVICE" "no" #use '--no-check-device' if set > > to "no" > > } > > Do I need to set additional options? > >This (snippet below from the gtar NEWS file) was added in 1.21 > >========================== >* New options --no-check-device, --check-device. > >The `--no-check-device' option disables comparing device numbers during >preparatory stage of an incremental dump. This allows to avoid >creating full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an >LVM snapshot). > >The `--check-device' option enables comparing device numbers. This is >the default. This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous >`--no-check-device' option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS >environment variable. >==========================
I could have sworn it was in the later 1.16 versions. I'll fire off the catchup script then. This has been such a continuing headache I'm ready to switch to dump. (not really, but its sure a PIMA) -- 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) You will be called upon to help a friend in trouble.
