Hi,

I tried tar-1.15.91 and I have the same problem.

tar-1.15.91 is buggy, you should not use it.

Jean-Louis

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:

| sendsize[11906]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null
--directory /home/p72 --one-file-system --numeric-owner --listed-incremental
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_p72_orig_3.new --sparse
--ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
/tmp/amanda/sendsize._home_p72_orig.20060713004504000.exclude --files-from
/tmp/amanda/sendsize._home_p72_orig.20060713004504000.include
| sendsize[11906]: time 1.574: /bin/tar: Unexpected field value in snapshot
file
| sendsize[11906]: time 1.574: /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting
now
| sendsize[11906]: time 1.575: .....
| sendsize[11906]: estimate time for /home/p72/orig level 3: 0.005
| sendsize[11906]: no size line match in /bin/tar output for "/home/p72/orig

It looks like the /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_p72_orig_3.new file
is corrupted. This file is a copy of
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_p72_orig_2.

IC.

Do you have free space in /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/ ?

Yes.

Maybe it's a bug in tar?
which tar version?

1.15.91-1 and 1.15.91-2.

So probably it's a bug in tar, as it was upgraded from 1.15.1dfsg-3 to
1.15.91-1 on 2006-07-06 (according to /var/log/dpkg.log).

So the backup run of 2006-07-07 created the first corrupt files, which were
noticed first during the next run on 2006-07-08.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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