On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:32:12PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2006-10-13 15:17, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:21:14PM +0100, Nick Pierpoint wrote: > >>> I've been using Amanda for a couple of months and it has all been > >>> working beautifully, but in the last few days I've been seeing some > >>> errors connected with gtar: > >>> > >>> sendbackup: info end > >>> ? gtar: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/rollins_home_1.new:1: Invalid time > >>> stamp > >>> ? gtar: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/rollins_home_1.new:2: Invalid inode > >>> number > >>> | gtar: ./nick/.evolution/cache/tmp/spamd-socket-path-M7CcHJ: socket > >>> rollins /home 1 FAILED > [...] > > > > You need to use a more recent Amanda, which can handle the new incremental > > format used by tar 1.15. > > Of course. It's friday. I understood the error message about gtar > accessing the file itself, but the file *contains* time-stamps and > inode-numbers, and it's when reading and decoding the values, it notices > the file is corrupt (because older amanda versions copied the file line > by line, but now the format changed to some binary format, and the line > by line copy damages the file).
How about just deleting the offending files? Would amanda/tar then build new ones, which would be compatible with the tar 1.15 file format? > > > > Apart from this, there are other bugs in tar 1.15 (at least the Debian > > version > > ignores --one-file-system when doing incrementals), that's why I reverted to > > 1.14. > > Still good advice, until that bug gets fixed too. Wonderful. Meanwhile, the Fedora powers that be have decided that amanda 2.5 won't go into FC5, but it is in FC6. FC6 is to be released some time in October. I shall do my usual careful testing before I have it on my amanda server, so it may be a month or more before I have amanda 2.5. Arggh. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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