The version of tar that is installed on the debian client is 1.13.25

When I manually create and extract the tar I do not get any errors.

From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
Reply-To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: can not back up client
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:03:05 -0500

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:41:04AM -0500, Rodney Johnson wrote:

> I am able to successfully back up Solaris and Red Hat clients. I can not

> back up the Debian client.  The server is running on Red Hat.
>
> This is the error message in the log:
>
> STRANGE dumper <FQDN><DLE> 0 [sec 3057.777 kb 9339610 kps 3054.4 orig-kb
> 9749540]
>  sendbackup: start [<FQDN><DLE> level 0]
>  sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
>  sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -f... -
>  sendbackup: info end
>  ??free(): invalid pointer 0x8063fd8!| Total bytes written: 9983528960
> (9.3GB, 3.1MB/s)
>  sendbackup: size 9749540
>  sendbackup: end
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

My first guess is that is a message from tar.  The tar is running
on the Debian client.  What version has Debian supplied?

If you manually do the "RECOVER_CMD" on the client do you get an error?

--
Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
 JG Computing
 4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
 Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)