Hi Paul

I run the comand here is the output.

server:/etc/amanda/DailySet1 # tar -cf - --sparse --one-file-sys --tot
--dir /media . | cat >/dev/null

tar: ./cdrom: Cannot savedir: No medium found
tar: ./floppy: Cannot savedir: No medium found
Total bytes written: 10240 (10kB, 74kB/s)
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

server:/etc/amanda/DailySet1 #

Thus I assume that it falls over when hit comes
across /media/cdrom /media/floopy and is what I need to fix. 

My fstab is as follows but when using Yast and floppy I have had no
issues.

/dev/cdrom           /media/cdrom         subfs
fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        subfs
fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0


On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 13:03 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> 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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