Hello...

        Recently I started using application-tool with amgtar to solve some
backup problems.  One of these problems is where several smaller
filesystems were merged creating a large filesystem.  The amanda backup
run using gtar started failing.  After much debugging I saw that the
gtar argument --listed-incremental /PATH was taking too long and failing
with:
dumper: [request failed: timeout waiting for REP](too)
df -ih shows 14M inodes used

I switched from the standard gtar to a hacked application/amgtar with
these lines ripped out:
my_argv[i++] = "--listed-incremental";
my_argv[i++] = incrname;

The backup is currently running successfully :) Attached is a patch to
amgtar.c adding an option to disable listed-incremental based on the
atime option.  I have not tested this yet as the current run will not
finish for another 20 hours or so.  Can someone glance at the patch to
see if I missed anything?





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Christopher McCrory
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--- amanda-2.6.1p1-orig/application-src/amgtar.c        2009-04-07 
09:57:25.000000000 -0700
+++ amanda-2.6.1p1-new/application-src/amgtar.c 2009-08-21 11:26:09.141031000 
-0700
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
  * EXCLUDE-FILE
  * EXCLUDE-LIST
  * EXCLUDE-OPTIONAL
+ * LISTED-INCREMENTAL (default YES)
  * NORMAL
  * IGNORE
  * STRANGE
@@ -146,6 +147,7 @@
 static int gnutar_atimepreserve;
 static int gnutar_checkdevice;
 static int gnutar_sparse;
+static int gnutar_listedincremental;
 static GSList *normal_message = NULL;
 static GSList *ignore_message = NULL;
 static GSList *strange_message = NULL;
@@ -181,6 +183,7 @@
     {"exit-handling"   , 1, NULL, 26},
     {"calcsize"        , 0, NULL, 27},
     {"tar-blocksize"   , 1, NULL, 28},
+    {"listed-incremental" , 1, NULL, 29},
     {NULL, 0, NULL, 0}
 };
 
@@ -454,6 +457,9 @@
        case 27: argument.calcsize = 1;
                 break;
        case 28: argument.tar_blocksize = stralloc(optarg);
+       case 29: if (optarg && strcasecmp(optarg, "YES") != 0)
+                    gnutar_listedincremental = 0;
+                break;
        case ':':
        case '?':
                break;
@@ -518,6 +524,7 @@
     dbprintf("SPARSE %s\n", gnutar_sparse? "yes":"no");
     dbprintf("ATIME-PRESERVE %s\n", gnutar_atimepreserve? "yes":"no");
     dbprintf("CHECK-DEVICE %s\n", gnutar_checkdevice? "yes":"no");
+    dbprintf("LISTED-INCREMENTAL %s\n", gnutar_listedincremental? "yes":"no");
     {
        amregex_t *rp;
        for (rp = re_table; rp->regex != NULL; rp++) {
@@ -1184,8 +1191,10 @@
        my_argv[i++] = "--atime-preserve=system";
     if (!gnutar_checkdevice)
        my_argv[i++] = "--no-check-device";
-    my_argv[i++] = "--listed-incremental";
-    my_argv[i++] = incrname;
+    if (gnutar_listedincremental) {
+        my_argv[i++] = "--listed-incremental";
+        my_argv[i++] = incrname;
+    }
     if (gnutar_sparse)
        my_argv[i++] = "--sparse";
     if (argument->tar_blocksize) {