sgw AT amanda DOT org wrote:

/-- server / lev 0 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2]
sendbackup: start [greenbottle.smtl.co.uk:/ level 0]
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: ./media/cdrom: Cannot savedir: No medium found
? gtar: ./media/floppy: Cannot savedir: No medium found
? gtar: ./media/cdrom: Warning: Cannot savedir: No medium found
? gtar: ./media/floppy: Warning: Cannot savedir: No medium found
| gtar: ./dev/log: socket ignored
| gtar: ./tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432: socket ignored
| gtar: ./tmp/.ICE-unix/19580: socket ignored
| gtar: ./tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop19563-1118847061: socket ignored
| gtar: ./tmp/.X11-unix/X0: socket ignored
| gtar: ./tmp/ksocket-root/kdeinit-\:0: socket ignored
| gtar: ./tmp/ksocket-root/kdeinit__0: socket ignored

[...]

| gtar: ./var/spool/postfix/public/showq: socket ignored
| Total bytes written: 5874155520 (5.5GB, 3.5MB/s)

Maybe use exclusions for all those sockets? This would remove all
those nasty ignore-errors above.

Note that the error is not in the sockets (those lines are marked
with a pipe-symbol as "normal"), but in the "no medium found"
lines, marked with a question mark.

Thus there is no need to add the sockets in the ignore list.

Now the problem is: why does the OS complain about missing media in
those directories?
I cannot reproduce this on any of my systems, with or without media
inserted.

What version of Linux are you using?

How are the /media/* directories managed ? (in /etc/fstab?  automouter?)

What happens when you do:

gtar -cf - --sparse --one-file-sys --tot --dir /media . | cat >/dev/null



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