Hi everyone I've used amanda a while now using xfsdump on mostly SGI Irix machines. Recently I added a disklist entry that would use GNUtar though. But I get the following error and I'm not sure what to make of it. It seems tar is unable to accurately estimate the dump size. Here's all my outputs:
>From the report: ... FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: columbus.c /users lev 0 FAILED [disk /users offline on columbus.che.udel.edu?] ... >From the log file: ... FAIL planner columbus.che.udel.edu /users 0 [disk /users offline on columbus.che.udel.edu?] ... >From the amdump.1 file: planner: pid 60549 executable /usr/freeware/libexec/planner version 2.4.1p1 planner: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.1p1" planner: BUILT_DATE="Fri Mar 3 08:29:23 PST 2000" planner: BUILT_MACH="IRIX humu 6.2 01200533 IP22" planner: CC="/hosts/babylon.engr/usr/dist/new_toolroots/6.2/products/freeware/latest/ptoolroot/usr/bin/cc -nostdinc -I. -I/xlv1/freeware/2000.May/amanda/2.4.1p1-sgipl2-root/usr/freeware/include -I/xlv1/freeware/2000.May/amanda/2.4.1p1-sgipl2-root/usr/include -O3 -OPT:Olimit=0:space=ON -n32 -mips3 -nostdlib -L/xlv1/freeware/2000.May/amanda/2.4.1p1-sgipl2-root/usr/freeware/lib32 -L/xlv1/freeware/2000.May/amanda/2.4.1p1-sgipl2-root/usr/lib32 -woff 1009,1014,1048,1107,1110,1116,1164,1185,1188,1204,1230,1233 -Wl,-woff,85,-woff,84 -rpath /usr/freeware/lib32" planner: paths: bindir="/usr/freeware/bin" sbindir="/usr/freeware/bin" planner: libexecdir="/usr/freeware/libexec" planner: mandir="/usr/freeware/man" planner: CONFIG_DIR="/usr/freeware/etc/amanda" planner: DEV_PREFIX="/dev/dsk/" RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/rdsk/" planner: DUMP="/sbin/dump" RESTORE="/sbin/restore" planner: XFSDUMP="/sbin/xfsdump" XFSRESTORE="/sbin/xfsrestore" planner: SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/samba/bin/smbclient" planner: GNUTAR="/usr/freeware/bin/tar" planner: COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/sbin/gzip" planner: UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/sbin/gzip" MAILER="/usr/sbin/Mail" planner: listed_incr_dir="/var/amanda/gnutar-lists" planner: defs: DEFAULT_SERVER="amanda-server" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1" planner: DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="amanda-server" planner: DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM planner: LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE BSD_SECURITY planner: USE_AMANDAHOSTS CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP planner: COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast" planner: COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc" ... setting up estimates for columbus.che.udel.edu:/users driver: started dumper1 pid 65369 columbus.che.udel.edu:/users overdue 11720 days for level 0 setup_estimate: columbus.che.udel.edu:/users: command 0, options: last_level -1 next_level0 -11720 level_days 0 getting estimates 0 (0) -1 (-1) -1 (-1) ... FAILED QUEUE: 0: columbus.che.udel.edu /users Oh yeah, and finally: /usr/freeware/bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13 Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks! Jan Boshoff