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Hello.

I've been using Amanda for a couple of months and it has all been
working beautifully, but in the last few days I've been seeing some
errors connected with gtar:

Here is last night's report...

These dumps were to tape DailySet1-33.
The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
The next new tape already labelled is: DailySet1-34.

FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  rollins  /home  lev 1  FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2]


STATISTICS:
                          Total       Full      Incr.
                        --------   --------   --------
Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:01
Run Time (hrs:min)         0:25
Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:06       0:01       0:05
Output Size (meg)         223.2       55.0      168.2
Original Size (meg)       508.2      272.2      236.0
Avg Compressed Size (%)    43.9       20.2       71.3
(level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Dumped            5          4          1   (1:1)
Avg Dump Rate (k/s)       632.3      661.6      623.3

Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:01       0:00       0:00
Tape Size (meg)           223.2       55.0      168.2
Tape Used (%)               0.2        0.1        0.2
(level:#disks ...)
Filesystems Taped             5          4          1   (1:1)
Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)  6699.1     9621.3     6094.4

USAGE BY TAPE:
  Label              Time      Size      %    Nb
  DailySet1-33       0:01      223M    0.2     5


FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/--  rollins /home lev 1 FAILED [/bin/tar returned 2]
sendbackup: start [rollins:/home level 1]
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: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/rollins_home_1.new:1: Invalid time
stamp
? gtar: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/rollins_home_1.new:2: Invalid inode
number
| gtar: ./nick/.evolution/cache/tmp/spamd-socket-path-M7CcHJ: socket
ignored
| Total bytes written: 7639367680 (7.2GiB, 7.1MiB/s)
? gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
sendbackup: error [/bin/tar returned 2]
\--------


NOTES:
  planner: Full dump of coltrane:/home promoted from 27 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of parker:/etc promoted from 25 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of rollins:/etc promoted from 27 days ahead.
  planner: Full dump of coltrane:/etc promoted from 27 days ahead.
  taper: tape DailySet1-33 kb 228736 fm 5 [OK]


DUMP SUMMARY:
                                     DUMPER STATS            TAPER
STATS 
HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-MB OUT-MB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS
KB/s
-------------------------- ---------------------------------
------------
coltrane     /etc        0      82     13  15.8   0:23 580.2
0:0041211.7
coltrane     /home       0      15     13  87.3   0:081611.6
0:027387.5
parker       /etc        0      91     14  15.6   0:25 595.2
0:027959.7
parker       /home       1     236    168  71.3   4:36 623.3
0:286094.3
rollins      /etc        0      84     15  17.5   0:29 512.5
0:027987.3
rollins      /home       1 FAILED
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Any ideas??

Many thanks.

Nick.