On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > > | sendsize[11906]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null > > --directory /home/p72 --one-file-system --numeric-owner --listed-incremental > > /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_p72_orig_3.new --sparse > > --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from > > /tmp/amanda/sendsize._home_p72_orig.20060713004504000.exclude --files-from > > /tmp/amanda/sendsize._home_p72_orig.20060713004504000.include > > | sendsize[11906]: time 1.574: /bin/tar: Unexpected field value in snapshot > > file > > | sendsize[11906]: time 1.574: /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting > > now > > | sendsize[11906]: time 1.575: ..... > > | sendsize[11906]: estimate time for /home/p72/orig level 3: 0.005 > > | sendsize[11906]: no size line match in /bin/tar output for "/home/p72/orig > > It looks like the /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_p72_orig_3.new file > is corrupted. This file is a copy of > /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_p72_orig_2.
IC. > Do you have free space in /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/ ? Yes. > Maybe it's a bug in tar? > which tar version? 1.15.91-1 and 1.15.91-2. So probably it's a bug in tar, as it was upgraded from 1.15.1dfsg-3 to 1.15.91-1 on 2006-07-06 (according to /var/log/dpkg.log). So the backup run of 2006-07-07 created the first corrupt files, which were noticed first during the next run on 2006-07-08. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds