Amanda-Users

Re: gtar dumper errors

2006-11-14 17:17:54
Subject: Re: gtar dumper errors
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:55:30 -0500
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 15:02, Frank Smith wrote:
>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

And one more time, tar eats our lunch.  OTOH, note his amanda version 
number, wasn't there problems with that one?  ISTR it ate my lunch, 
several times a few months ago.

-- 
Cheers, Gene

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