On Thursday 09 April 2009, John Hein wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote at 10:05 -0400 on Apr  9, 2009:
> > On Thursday 09 April 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> > >On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT 
> > >net>
> >
> > wrote:
> > >> Uptime is about 5 days now, but this may be the beginning of the end.
> > >> Something made it think all data was new from the looks of this.  This
> > >> was the first run of 20090323, 20090321 works fine.  Another device
> > >> mapper screwup? It was updated by yum yesterday.
> > >
> > >That seems the most likely cause.
> > >
> > >Dustin
> >
> > Yeas, but I thought we had worked out something that made amanda immune
> > to those little annoyances?  Or was tar changed and the fix didn't work
> > now?
> >
> > [amanda@coyote GenesAmandaHelper-0.6]$ tar --version
> > tar (GNU tar) 1.20
>
>[snip]
>
> > Here is the amgtar stanza from amanda.conf:
> >
> > define application-tool app_amgtar {
> >      comment "amgtar"
> >      plugin  "amgtar"
> >      #property "GNUTAR-PATH" "/path/to/gtar"
> >      #property "GNUTAR-LISTDIR" "/path/to/gnutar_list_dir"
> >      #default from gnutar_list_dir setting in amanda-client.conf
> >      #property "ONE-FILE-SYSTEM" "yes"  #use '--one-file-system' option
> >      #property "SPARSE" "yes"           #use '--sparse' option
> >      #property "ATIME-PRESERVE" "yes"   #use '--atime-preserve=system'
> > option property "CHECK-DEVICE" "no"       #use '--no-check-device' if set
> > to "no"
> > }
> > Do I need to set additional options?
>
>This (snippet below from the gtar NEWS file) was added in 1.21
>
>==========================
>* New options --no-check-device, --check-device.
>
>The `--no-check-device' option disables comparing device numbers during
>preparatory stage of an incremental dump.  This allows to avoid
>creating full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an
>LVM snapshot).
>
>The `--check-device' option enables comparing device numbers.  This is
>the default.  This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous
>`--no-check-device' option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS
>environment variable.
>==========================

I could have sworn it was in the later 1.16 versions.  I'll fire off the 
catchup script then. This has been such a continuing headache I'm ready to 
switch to dump. (not really, but its sure a PIMA)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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