On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:26:07PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>
> >>| gtar: ./cache/samba/winbindd_privileged/pipe: socket ignored
> >
> >
> >Tar is warning you that it came across a special file type (a socket)
> >and didn't back it up. You can safely ignore these messages.
> 
> 
> Not 100% true actually.  Gnutar produces some output on stderr which
> amanda classifies as "normal" (can safely be ignored), "error" (needs
> to be flagged as error to the user, and implies that this dump is not
> correct and will not be put on tape if dumping to holdingdisk).
> And a third category "strange": all the other messages not falling in
> category "error" or "normal".
> 
> When amanda detects strange or failed "lines", it shows them all,
> including the normal ones.  The normal ones are preceded by a pipe
> symbol as above.  The "error" and "strange" lines are preceded by a
> question mark.
> 
> That means that the above line is not seen as an error.  And would
> that be the only output of tar, amanda would not have bothered you
> with those details.

Darn, that's the second thing this old dog learned today.

Thanks for the clarification Paul.

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