AMANDA 2.5.1p2 and GNU tar 1.16.1, the latter returning 1

[Trond Endrestøl]

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On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:31+0100, Wolfgang Zenker wrote:

> > /--  monitor.fig.ol.no / lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/bin/gtar returned 1]
> > sendbackup: start [monitor.fig.ol.no:/ level 0]
> > sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/bin/gtar
> > sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/local/bin/gtar -f - ...
> > sendbackup: info end
> > ? GNUTAR: ./proc: file changed as we read it
> > | Total bytes written: 173752320 (166MiB, 3.0MiB/s)
> > sendbackup: error [/usr/local/bin/gtar returned 1]
> > \--------
> 
> the exit status of 1 is due to "./proc: file changed as we read it".

Are you absolutely sure?

gtar is run with, among other options, --one-file-system and 
- --ignore-failed-read.

> As you probably don't want to backup /proc anyway, exclude it from
> your backup config.

This shouldn't be neccessary since / is the only specified filesystem.


Trond.

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