* Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> [20050824 17:08]:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:59:03PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the last few days I've been getting this error:
> >
> > [/usr/freeware/bin/tar returned 2]
>
> Return code (exit status) 2 seems, I think, to be reserved by tar
> for non-fatal situations from which it can continue doing its archive.
> Gnutar reports the file caused problems and sets a flag that causes
> an exit status of 2 when it gets to the normal end point.
>
> ...
> > sendsize[133766]: time 9395.075: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: ./dev/fd: Cannot
> > savedir: Function not implemented
> > sendsize[133766]: time 9458.503: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: ./dev/fd: Warning:
> > Cannot savedir: Function not implemented
> > sendsize[133766]: time 9477.462: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: ./dev/entropy:
> > socket ignored
> > sendsize[133766]: time 9479.274: /usr/freeware/bin/tar:
> > ./opt/prngd/egd-pool: socket ignored
> > sendsize[133766]: time 9550.026: /usr/freeware/bin/tar:
> > ./var/spool/pbs/server_priv/jobs/70085.shado.JB: Warning: Cannot stat: No
> > such file or directory
> > sendsize[133766]: time 9550.034: /usr/freeware/bin/tar:
> > ./var/spool/pbs/server_priv/jobs/70085.shado.SC: Warning: Cannot stat: No
> > such file or directory
> > sendsize[133766]: time 9551.503: Total bytes written: 3056629760 (2.8GB,
> > 18MB/s)
> > sendsize[133766]: time 9551.510: /usr/freeware/bin/tar: Error exit delayed
> > from previous errors
> > sendsize[133766]: time 9551.510: .....
> ...
> >
> >
> > Any clue?
>
>
> Looks to me like:
>
> Some devices, sockets and whatever fd is (file descriptor, floppy
> disk, ???) could not be handled by tar and two temporary spool files
> existed when tar looked at the directory listing but had already
> disappeared when tar tried to get their size, ownership, ...
>
> Maybe some exclude's are needed?
Thanks John for the pointers.
What I fail to understand is that DLE has been backed up for quite a
while without this error ever appearing and all of a sudden gtar burps
on the /dev/fd directory (and yes, /dev/fd contains file descriptor
files on irix). The gnu ls also doesn't grok /dev/fd as well...hmmm,
strange. In any case I changed gnutar for xfsdump and I'll see what
goes on when the backup completes.
regards,
jf
>
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