On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:16:58AM +0200, Mozzi wrote:
> Hallo all
> I it correct that everything on this disk was backed up exept the two files 
> mentioned?
> They are mrtg temp files

Note your own terminology, "temp" files.

gtar first looks at what has to be backed up then goes to back it up.
Those files were temporarily there, then not.

> du tells me the directory is 12Gb not 11 as stated here

du reports based on "blocks".  Some blocks assigned to files are only
partially full, expecially the last block of a file.  gtar outputs in
a continuous stream, so no partial blocks.  It report what it wrote.
This does not have to match what the number of blocks it read.

> 
> FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
> 
> /-- earth.lant /webspace lev 0 STRANGE
> sendbackup: start [earth.mydomain.net:/webspace level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/tar -f... -
> sendbackup: info end
> ? gtar: ./support.mydomain.net/html/secure/stats/coreswitch.cfg_l_25775: 
> Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> ? gtar: ./support.mydomain.net/html/secure/stats/customerswitch.cfg_l_25773: 
> Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> | Total bytes written: 11514859520 (11GB, 1.7MB/s)
> sendbackup: size 11244980
> sendbackup: end
> \--------

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