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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:31:26 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>
Cc:        FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: AMANDA 2.5.1p2 and GNU tar 1.16.1, the latter returning 1
Message-ID:  <200702030831.l138VQQ7074954@juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070203075628.W18919@ramstind.fig.ol.no>

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Hi,

> Does anybody besides me have problems with AMANDA 2.5.1p2 and GNU tar 
> 1.16.1? The problem is that gtar exits with an exit status of 1 after 
> creating the archive. This leeds to AMANDA dumping the affected 
> filesystems at least twice.
> [..]
> Here's an exerpt from an AMANDA mail report:

> /--  monitor.fig.ol.no / lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/bin/gtar returned 1]
> sendbackup: start [monitor.fig.ol.no:/ level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/bin/gtar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/local/bin/gtar -f - ...
> sendbackup: info end
> ? GNUTAR: ./proc: file changed as we read it
> | Total bytes written: 173752320 (166MiB, 3.0MiB/s)
> sendbackup: error [/usr/local/bin/gtar returned 1]
> \--------

the exit status of 1 is due to "./proc: file changed as we read it".
As you probably don't want to backup /proc anyway, exclude it from
your backup config.

Wolfgang



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