Hello, I have had Amanda running for over a decade, yesterday I had no issue at all but last night, my backups for Ubuntu machines started crashing consistently with the error: strange(?): runtar: error [runtar invalid option: -]
That even happens on a machine that is currently unused. The sendbackup.debug: Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540023056 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: pid 176238 ruid 34 euid 34 version 3.5.1: start at Thu Mar 23 12:42:52 2023 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540038593 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: Version 3.5.1 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540203704 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: pid 176238 ruid 34 euid 34 version 3.5.1: rename at Thu Mar 23 12:42:52 2023 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540260443 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: Parsed request as: program `GNUTAR' Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540265622 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: disk `/home2/docker/volumes' Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540268838 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: device `/home2/docker/volumes' Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540271771 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: level 1 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540274728 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: since NODATE Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540277637 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: options `' Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540280674 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: datapath `AMANDA' Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540314487 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: start: guppy1000:/home2/docker/volumes lev 1 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540326715 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: Spawning "/bin/gzip /bin/gzip --best" in pipeline Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540482259 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: gnutar: pid 176240: /bin/gzipThu Mar 23 12:42:52.540495845 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: pid 176240: /bin/gzip --best Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.540532571 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: doing level 1 dump as listed-incremental from '/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/guppy1000_home2_docker_volumes_0' to '/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/guppy1000_home2_docker_volumes_1.new' Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.541308063 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: Spawning "/usr/lib/amanda/runtar runtar normal /bin/tar --create --file - --directory /home2/docker/volumes --one-file-system --listed-incremental /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/guppy1000_home2_docker_volumes_1.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals ." in pipeline Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.541356931 2023: pid 176241: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: Dupped file descriptor 3 to 11 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.541474547 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: gnutar: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 176242 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.541498736 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: shm_ring_link /amanda_shm_control-176237-0 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.541535955 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: am_sem_open 0x7f67cb7e6000 1 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.541546592 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: am_sem_open 0x7f67cb7e5000 1 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.541553997 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: am_sem_open 0x7f67cb7e4000 1 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.541561135 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: am_sem_open 0x7f67cb7e3000 1 Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.541565219 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: shm_ring_producer_set_size Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.542263918 2023: pid 176241: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: Started index creator: "/bin/tar -tf - 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\.//'" Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.544787802 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: Started backup Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.544826375 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338887060: sendbackup: fd_to_shm_ring Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.548988463 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: 119: strange(?): runtar: error [runtar invalid option: -] Thu Mar 23 12:42:52.549723621 2023: pid 176241: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: Index created successfully Thu Mar 23 12:42:53.550073702 2023: pid 176238: thd-0x55a338876200: sendbackup: critical (fatal): error [no backup size line] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/amanda/libamanda-3.5.1.so(+0x39067)[0x7f67cb820067] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_logv+0x21c)[0x7f67cb70355c] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_log+0x93)[0x7f67cb703743] /usr/lib/amanda/sendbackup(parse_backup_messages+0x46f)[0x55a33859273f] /usr/lib/amanda/sendbackup(main+0x1332)[0x55a33858f512] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3)[0x7f67cb4b9083] /usr/lib/amanda/sendbackup(_start+0x2e)[0x55a338590d8e] Note that the sendsize is fine. Thank for any idea on what I should look for. Best regards, Olivier