We're using tar-1.13.25-4.7.1 which looks like it's the latest one.

Caroline

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From: martinh [mailto:martinh AT solid-state-logic DOT com]
Sent: 27 May 2003 16:50
To: Marriage, Caroline
Cc: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: Re: Failing backup - missing result


What version of gnutar are you using?


You'll need tha latest version (as just mentioned by Joshua).



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Marriage, Caroline wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm new to Amanda and am having problems working out why one of our 
> backups is failing.
> 
> We are trying to backup /var on one of our machines using dump and 
> were initially getting lots of bread and lseek errors.  I read that 
> this was due to the disk being written to as the backup was being 
> done - is that correct?
> 
> I thought that using tar instead of dump may overcome this problem or 
> at least would allow us to exclude directories that were being 
> written.  I have changed the config to use tar am now seeing failures 
> which I believe are due to the client being unable get an estimate -
>  "missing result for /dev/sda7 in debussy.eu.ntt.net response".  
> There is no size for /dev/sda7 in the sendsize file. 
> 
> Can anyone shed any light as to why it's failing? - apologies if I'm 
> asking the obvious...
> 
> Thanks
> Caroline
> 
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