freebsd stable - Feb 2007 - AMANDA 2.5.1p2 and GNU tar 1.16.1, the latter returning 1

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Hi,

This discussion may not belong here on -stable, but I take my chances 
anyway.

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.

On my FreeBSD systems running with GNU tar 1.15.1 or older (say, 
1.13.25), this problem does not occur at all.

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]
\--------

monitor.fig.ol.no runs GNU tar 1.16.1.


Trond.

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Trond Endrest?l                          |   trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no
Patron of The Art of Computer Programming|   FreeBSD 6.2-S & Pine 4.64

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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