On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:31:57PM -0500, Mike Neimoyer wrote: > Okay, looking further, I see the following in the file > ... > > Just a guess here, but I presume that since amanda is waiting on a > response from tar, and tar has errored out, that amanda skips this > item in it's DLE because of this error. > > Does this sound reasonable? > > Now, if that's the case, I either need to figure out how to edit > what commands amanda is sending to the tar program and remove the > offending commandline flag, or downgrade the version of tar that is > on the newly updated server. > > Thoughts?
Gnu tar has had a very troubled relationship with amanda. Thus the Wiki article Charles mentioned about which versions are know to be compatible. Somewhere on the client will be a log file called something like "runtar.20110204032022.debug". On my current client is is in "/var/log/amanda/client/<config". That log should contain the exact line that was executed. The same command line should also be shown in the sendbackup log in the same directory. In case you have multiple tar's on your system, check the above command lines are executing the one you expect. Check its version against the known suitable versions. Also try executing the command line manually. If you do need to install a different tar version, you should consider leaving the system version intact and tell amanda to use the alternate. You might install it as "amgnutar" under some amanda specific directory eg. /usr/libexec/amanda. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
