On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Frank Smith wrote:
> Glenn English wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > The backup works and verifies, but the report says:
> > 
> >>   planner: disk zbox.slsware.lan:/usr/bin, estimate of level 2 failed.
> >>   planner: disk zbox.slsware.lan:/var, estimate of level 1 failed.
> >>   planner: disk zbox.slsware.lan:/home, estimate of level 1 failed.
> >>   planner: disk zbox.slsware.lan:/boot, estimate of level 1 failed.
> >>   planner: disk zbox.slsware.lan:/, estimate of level 1 failed.
> > 
> > for every DLE on this host. It does level 0s, so things get backed up.
> > And it "just started; I didn't change anything". Any explanations?
> 
> Yes, you updated your packages and got tar 1.15.91, which changed
> something related to --listed-incremental.  I believe there is a
> current snapshot of Amanda that addresses that issue, but you might
> want to just revert to a previous version of tar, as 1.15.91 also
> has an issue with using --one-file-system in conjunction with the
> --listed-incremental option that causes it to leak out of the
> base filesystem,

Indeed. The only way to get my backups working again was downgrading to tar
from sarge:

    apt-get install tar=1.14-2.2

> > Debian Linux, testing; VERSION="Amanda-2.5.0p2"; installed by apt-get.
> > This is the Amanda host; these DLEs are local disks. The hosts on the
> > nets are fine.
> > 
> > Does that first entry mean that the level 1 worked but the 2 didn't?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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