hi...


Am Dienstag, den 25.03.2008, 17:52 -0400 schrieb Dustin J. Mitchell:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Mister Olli <mister.olli AT googlemail DOT 
> com> wrote:
> >  > > > > but this does not work, gtar proccess are eating a lot of CPU 
> > cycles:
> 
> I only have three emails from this conversation, but from the number
> of quote characters above, there seem to have been more.  Oliver, can
> you summarize what the problem is, at this point?  How did you answer
> Heiko's question about the redirection of 'tar .. --file - ..'?
the last mail if forwarded to this list, was the direct answer to
heiko's question.
the redirection of the tar file to '/dev/null' succeeded without any
errors or hanging up.


> >From what I can see, I doubt this is a vmware issue, but let's see if
> we can get it sorted out.  Besides your summary, please post the two
> commmand lines, one that works, and one that doesn't.  We'll try to
> whittle them down to see what the difference is.
ok, no problem:

these 3 command work like a charme (executed for testing, and narrowing
down the failure):
===============================================================================
> gtar --create --file - --directory /boot --one-file-system
>
--listed-incremental /root/gtar_test/gnutar-lists/172.31.3.9_boot_0.new
> --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
> /root/gtar_test/sendbackup._boot.20080320110639.exclude . >
> /root/boot_new.tar

> gtar --create --file /root/boot_new.tar --directory /boot
--one-file-system
>
--listed-incremental /root/gtar_test/gnutar-lists/172.31.3.9_boot_0.new
> --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
> /root/gtar_test/sendbackup._boot.20080320110639.exclude . 

> gtar --create --file - --directory /boot --one-file-system
>
--listed-incremental /root/gtar_test/gnutar-lists/172.31.3.9_boot_0.new
> --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
> /root/gtar_test/sendbackup._boot.20080320110639.exclude . | cat
> /dev/null


this is the original command (taken from 'ps aux') how amanda executes
gtar, and this one hangs up (or more like hangs up in an endless loop,
cause its eating a lot of CPU cycles):
================================================================================
> gtar --create --file - --directory /boot --one-file-system
>
--listed-incremental /root/gtar_test/gnutar-lists/172.31.3.9_boot_0.new
> --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
> /root/gtar_test/sendbackup._boot.20080320110639.exclude . 


I hope that helps....

Olli