Thanks Dustin,

With tar 1.15 incremental backups are working again.

regards :-)
BruceS

Bruce.Skinner AT norsteadfarm DOT ca (Bruce S. Skinner) writes:

> Right on.  GNU tar version is 1.15.91 and
> /var/log/amanda/sendsize.blahblah has the following errors:
>
>   sendsize[16402]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null
>       --directory /boot --one-file-system --numeric-owner 
> --listed-incremental 
>       /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/gw.n.xatl.drdc-rddc.gc.ca_boot_1.new
>       --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals .
>   sendsize[16402]: time 0.815: /bin/tar: Unexpected field value in snapshot 
> file
>   sendsize[16402]: time 0.815: /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> I've just built and installed tar 1.15 and we'll see what happens
> tonight...
>
> regards :-)
> BruceS
>
>
> "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:04:47PM -0300, Bruce S. Skinner wrote:
>>> I'm only getting level 0 dumps for all my disks as estimates for level
>>> 1 are failing.  I'm using gnu tar to do the dumps.  I've included some
>>> excerpts pertaining to an example disk (/boot) from two days consecutive 
>>> amdump log
>>> files.  Does anyone have a suggestion why estimates may be failing or
>>> where I should look next?
>>
>> What version of tar are you using?
>>
>> See:
>>   http://forums.zmanda.com/archive/index.php/t-299.html
>>
>> Dustin
>
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