On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress AT arcor DOT de> 
wrote:
>  on an Ubuntu 7.10 box running amanda 2.5.1p3, I see the following
>  messages in the report:
>
>  ? gtar: .: Warning: Cannot stat: Cannot allocate memory
>  ? gtar: .: Warning: Cannot stat: Cannot allocate memory
>
>  Does this mean that the backup failed?  Any idea where they come from,
>  and how to fix them?

They come from gtar :)

The obvious answer is "you're out of memory" -- do you have enough
swap?  Is that a huge directory?

The slightly less obvious answer may be that something funny happened
with the filesystem -- perhaps the directory gtar was working in was
deleted?  Was NFS involved?  ENOMEM tends to be used for reasons other
than its literal meaning.

Dustin

-- 
Storage Software Engineer
http://www.zmanda.com