On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2006-10-13 14:21, Nick Pierpoint wrote:
> > 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]
> > \--------
> 
> 
> I believe you have a problem with the filesystem that holds /var.
> Is it full?  Or is it corrupt? ...
> 
> Gnutar creates a file in the directory /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists
> for its listed-incremental feature.  And accessing that file somehow
> triggers the errors "Invalid time stamp" and "Invalid inode number".
> Maybe because /home is larger, and thus while backing up /home the
> error occurs, while backing up /etc, the listed-incremental file is
> much smaller, and does not trigger the error.

Have you recently upgraded tar to 1.15?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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