Hi,

Since a few days one of my DLEs consistently fails with:

| /--  anakin /home/src lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line]
| sendbackup: start [anakin:/home/src level 1]
| sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
| sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f - ...
| sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
| sendbackup: info end
| ? gtar: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_src_1.new: Missing record 
terminator
| ? gtar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
| sendbackup: error [no backup size line]

sendbackup.20061125005608.debug has:

| sendbackup: start: anakin:/home/src lev 1
| sendbackup: time 0.000: spawning /bin/gzip in pipeline
| sendbackup: argument list: /bin/gzip --fast
| sendbackup-gnutar: time 0.001: pid 8618: /bin/gzip --fast
| sendbackup-gnutar: time 7.362: doing level 1 dump as listed-incremental from 
'/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_src_0' to 
'/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_src_1.new'
| sendbackup-gnutar: time 7.407: doing level 1 dump from date: 2006-11-20 
12:45:43 GMT
| sendbackup: time 7.419: started index creator: "/bin/tar -tf - 2>/dev/null | 
sed -e 's/^\.//'"
| sendbackup: time 7.420: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline
| sendbackup: argument list: runtar DailySet1 gtar --create --file - 
--directory /home --one-file-system --listed-incremental 
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_src_1.new --sparse 
--ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from 
/tmp/amanda/sendbackup._home_src.20061125005616.exclude --files-from 
/tmp/amanda/sendbackup._home_src.20061125005616.include
| sendbackup-gnutar: time 7.423: /usr/lib/amanda/runtar: pid 8623
| sendbackup: time 7.423: started backup
| sendbackup: time 13.134: 118: strange(?): gtar: 
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/anakin_home_src_1.new: Missing record terminator
| sendbackup: time 13.148: 118: strange(?): gtar: Error is not recoverable: 
exiting now
| sendbackup: time 13.162: index created successfully
| sendbackup: time 13.163: error [no backup size line]
| sendbackup: time 13.163: pid 8616 finish time Sat Nov 25 00:56:21 2006

Anyone with a clue? Could this be /var running out of diskspace?

I'm using Debian, with Amanda 2.5.1p1-2 and tar 1.16-1.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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