I fixed this by putting it in the exclude list
and amdump was happy - no more errors.

I do not think I need this file anyway since it is part
of the holding disk???


-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 3:34 PM
To: Dalton, John L MONMOUTH ITS Multimax; 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: Re: How can I fix this as it is failing the backup!!


On Friday 15 August 2003 10:59, Dalton, John L MONMOUTH ITS Multimax 
wrote:
>FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
>
>/-- XXXXXX    /home lev 2 STRANGE
>sendbackup: start [XXXXXX:/home level 2]
>sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
>sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
>sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
>sendbackup: info end
>? gtar: ./amanda/tmp/20030815/XXXXXX._home.2.tmp: file changed as we
> read it
>
>| Total bytes written: 234874880 (224MB, 5.9MB/s)
>
>sendbackup: size 229370
>sendbackup: end

I don't imagine you can unless you can stop the activity in the /home 
filesystem while amanda is running.

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