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). > 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. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
