amanda version?
tar version?
Any other amanda process running?
Send the complete debug files:
 sendbackup.*.debug and amandad.*.debug from the client
 dumper.*.debug from the server.

anthonyh wrote:

Hi guys,

Any solution to the GNUTAR hanging issue yet? I'm having the same problem as
the tar problem runs indefinitely for some time until i killed it.

top - 10:31:19 up 5 days, 12:01,  1 user,  load average: 1.11, 1.03, 1.01
Tasks:  44 total,   2 running,  41 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 30.6% us, 69.4% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    125064k total,   122244k used,     2820k free,    77304k buffers
Swap:   262072k total,        0k used,   262072k free,    14384k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 17812 root 25 0 1920 652 568 R 99.7 0.5 4732:18 tar 4546 root 16 0 2888 868 724 R 0.3 0.7 0:00.03 top 1 root 16 0 1952 460 392 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.09 init

# ps aux |grep tar
root     17812 99.5  0.5  1920  652 ?        R    May01 4732:26 gtar
--create --
file - --directory /boot --one-file-system --listed-incremental
/usr/local/var/a
manda/gnutar-lists/anthonyho.no-ip.org_boot_1.new --sparse

--ignore-failed-read --totals .

root      4548  0.0  0.4  4820  572 pts/1    D    10:31   0:00 grep tar


Any workaround?

Regards,
Anthony