Gardiner Leverett wrote:
> I'm having a similar problem someone reported earlier. 
> I have a subdirectory I'm tying to archive with gtar from
> the client "arnold".  It failed, so I subdivided it into 
> smaller pieces.  For example, I have about 10 user directories, 
> so I have a config for the directories a-b, c-d, e-g, h-m, and n-z.  
> Here's what I get:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>  
>> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>> arnold  /z/workareas-eg  lev 0 FAILED [mesg read: Connection reset by
> peer]
>> arnold  /z/workareas-cd  lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead
> of 32768]
>> arnold  /z/workareas-ab  lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header: got 0 instead
> of 32768]
>> arnold  /z/workareas-eg  lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry]
>> arnold  /z/workareas-eg  lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header:  got 0 instead
> of 32768]
>> arnold  /z/workareas-cd  lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry]
>> arnold  /z/workareas-cd  lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header:  got 0 instead
> of 32768]
>> arnold  /z/workareas-ab  lev 0 FAILED [too many dumper retry]
>> arnold  /z/workareas-ab  lev 0 FAILED [cannot read header:  got 0 instead
> of 32768]
> 
> And in the dump summary, I get this:
>  
>> DUMP SUMMARY:
>> arnold       -rkareas-ab 0 FAILED  
>> arnold       -rkareas-cd 0 FAILED 
>> arnold       -rkareas-eg 0 N/A  242 --    N/A   N/A     N/A   N/A  PARTIAL
>> arnold       -rkareas-hm 0 242  32  13.3  25:58 158.9   0:0311598.7
>> arnold       -rkareas-nz 0 106  22  21.1  10:58 164.6   0:0211269.6
> 
>> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.5.0b1-20051205)
> 
> Any idea why I get two of the sub sections, partail of one, and nothing from
> the
> other two? 
> 

What version of tar are you using?  It might be related to what I
saw in my recent posting, where tar 1.16 now returns an error code
of 1 when a file changes during the run.  Previous versions returned
a 2 in that case, which I think just caused Amanda to flag it as
STRANGE, but a 1 is interpreted as failed, so Amanda retries from the
beginning until either it works or you hit 'too many dumper retries',
whatever number that is.  I haven't seen any replies on what 'PARTIAL'
means.

Frank


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