On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:45:38AM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote:
> What does STRANGE means?

Amanda looks through the stderr output from dump (or gtar) and
tries to classify each message as either an error or benign
verbosity.  "STRANGE" means that there was a message that Amanda
doesn't recognize, and so can't classify.  As others have pointed
out, you have to look at the particular message to determine for
yourself whether it indicates a serious problem.  (In your
temp-file case, I kind of suspect it does...)

This isn't relevent to your case, but for general reference: the
messages that Amanda can recognize are in hard-coded lists in
sendbackup-dump.c and sendbackup-gnutar.c.  If you get a
recurring STRANGE message and want Amanda to classify it for you,
you can add an appropriate regex to the appropriate list.

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