Hi Chris, Thanks for your reply. I think you've actually hit the problem on the head. Yesterday I started updating the tar program on my clients and backups started happening. The negative number disappeared. Apparently the older tar would not go high enough.
Thanks for your reply! Jeff On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 01:17, Chris Marble wrote: > Jeffery Smith wrote: > > > > Last week I started fresh and installed the client from sources, brand new, > > on to a workstation named 'barry'. This workstation is a Sun Sparc 5 > > running Solaris 2.5.1 (old, I know). The client was configured using > > the following command: > > > > ./configure --with-user=root --with-group=bin --without-server > > I've run Amanda on 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7 and 8 boxes. Never bothered with > the "without-server" option though. > > > This ran with no problem, as did the 'make' and 'make install'. I > > believe the entry in the /etc/inetd.conf' file is correct: > > > > amanda dgram udp wait root /usr/local/libexec/amandad amandad > > Looks right to me too. amcheck should report any terrible problem. > > > Everything is reportedly looking good when I run amcheck. I tried to > > run a non-indexed test backup with only barry in the disklist, but it > > failed. Here's what the report said: > > > > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: > > barry /export/home lev 0 FAILED [disk /export/home offline on barry?] > > Is this an automounted volume? Could it be unmounted when you do the > backups in the wee hours? > > > In case one were to wonder, the version of barry's /usr/local/bin/gnutar is: > > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.19 > > That's a good version. And the files below show that's the path it's using. > > > ---------------------------- > > sendsize*.debug > > ---------------------------- > > sendsize: debug 1 pid 1267 ruid 0 euid 0 start time Thu Feb 21 12:20:10 > > 2002 > > /usr/local/libexec/sendsize: version 2.4.2p2 > > calculating for amname '/export/home', dirname '/export/home' > > sendsize: getting size via gnutar for /export/home level 0 > > sendsize: missing exclude list file "/export/home/.amanda.excludes" > > discarded > > sendsize: spawning /usr/local/libexec/runtar in pipeline > > sendsize: argument list: /usr/local/bin/gnutar --create --file /dev/null > > --directory /export/home --one-file-system --listed-incremental > > /usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/barry_export_home_0.new --sparse > > --ignore-failed-read --totals . > > Total bytes written: -2079072256 > > ..... > > (no size line match in above gnutar output) > > ..... > > sendsize: pid 1267 finish time Thu Feb 21 12:37:42 2002 > > Does 2.5 support files larger than 2Gb? I have a feeling support for that > wasn't introduced until 2.5.1 or so. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - HMC UNIX Systems Manager > My opinions are my own and probably don't represent anything anyway.
