Re: Index file is empty - cygwin - using latest verion on tar

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 00:42, Michael Gabriel wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>     I'm having trouble getting the amanda backups going under
> cygwin. The server is backing up serveral other linux boxes so I
> think that's ok.  The data is being sent to the server from the
> cygwin box but the index file is empty.
>
>The only thing that is showing any indication of a problem in in the
>sendbackup log. which is reflected in the mail message below. I'm
> sure that sed and tar (I'm using the latest version) are ok.
>
>
>-rw-------    1 backup   backup         20 Jul  1 16:17
> 20030701_0.gz -rw-------    1 backup   backup         20 Jul  1
> 16:40 20030701_1.gz -rw-------    1 backup   backup         20 Jul 
> 2 11:37 20030702_0.gz
>
>
>Error reported for mail.
>
>
>/-- xbox       /cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles lev 0 STRANGE
>sendbackup: start [xbox:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles level 0]
>sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/tar
>sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/bin/tar -f... -
>sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
>sendbackup: info end
>? sed: not found

It appears that sed is not in your $PATH

>| Total bytes written: 471193600 (449MB, 802kB/s)
>
>sendbackup: size 460150
>sendbackup: end
>\--------
>
>The dumptype used is as follows.
>
>define dumptype comp-user-tar {
>    program "GNUTAR"
>    comment "partitions dumped with tar"
>    options compress-fast, index, exclude-list
> "/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar" priority medium
>}
>
>Does anyone have and idea about how I can troubleshoot this problem.
>I've looked throught the faq-o-matic and searched through
> amanda-users.
>
>Many thanks
>
>Michael.

Also, your tar s/b 1.13-19 or 1.13-25, plain 1.13 is broken.

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