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I am running Amanda versions 2.4.2p2 on a AIX 5.1 system.
I have been getting these strange dump details, and would like
To resolve these problems. The following information is provided.

FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/-- thunder /home lev 1 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [thunder:/home level 1]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: Removing leading `./' from member names
| Total bytes written: 16957440 (17MiB, 1.9MiB/s)
sendbackup: size 16560
sendbackup: end
--------

/-- hail /home lev 4 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [hail:/home level 4]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: Removing leading `./' from member names
| Total bytes written: 19957760 (20MiB, 610KiB/s)
sendbackup: size 19490
sendbackup: end
--------

/-- thunder / lev 2 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [thunder:/ level 2]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: Removing leading `./' from member names
| gtar: ./tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432: socket ignored Total bytes written:
| 160993280 (154MiB, 5.9MiB/s)
sendbackup: size 157220
sendbackup: end
--------

/-- hail / lev 1 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [hail:/ level 1]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: Removing leading `./' from member names
| gtar: ./dev/log: socket ignored
| gtar: ./tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432: socket ignored
| gtar: ./tmp/mysql.sock: socket ignored
| gtar: ./var/run/fcron.fifo: socket ignored Total bytes written:
| 393256960 (376MiB, 2.6MiB/s)
sendbackup: size 384040
sendbackup: end


Any help is would be greatly appreciated.


Kevin D. Alford
Sr. Systems Engineer
TMC Technologies, Inc.
(304)368-1862 Ext. 53

Kevin D. Alford wrote:

I am running Amanda versions 2.4.2p2 on a AIX 5.1 system.
I have been getting these strange dump details, and would like
To resolve these problems. The following information is provided.

FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:

/-- thunder /home lev 1 STRANGE
...
? gtar: Removing leading `./' from member names


That's a symptom of an experimental gnutar version (probably 1.13.92?).

Besides the anoying warning, you'll have trouble using the
index in amrecover (who expects leading './' on al member names ).
(In other words, you can't use amrecover at all with these indexes.)

Don't use it. Use gnutar 1.13.25 (proven stable).

That particular behavior was removed again in the last version (1.13.94
I believe). But I've not yet had time to test the other improvements
in that version. You may of course volunteer and keep us informed.


PS. very strange to run an old amanda version 2.4.2p2, 3 years old now,
I believe, and, at the same time bleeding edge gnutar versions.

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I have upgraded gnutar version to 1.14 and everything works fine.
Thanx.

Kevin



-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Valentine [mailto:avalentine < at > sbsalaska.com ([email]avalentine < at > sbsalaska.com[/email])]
Sent: Fri 7/23/2004 6:03 PM
To: Paul Bijnens
Cc: Kevin D. Alford; Amanda Users
Subject: Re: Strange Dumps?

PS. very strange to run an old amanda version 2.4.2p2, 3 years old now,
I believe, and, at the same time bleeding edge gnutar versions.

In Kevin's defense, compiling new versions of Amanda on AIX has proved
to be difficult, if it is even possible (I have yet to succeed with
anything newer than 2.4.2p2). If you, or anyone else, has had success
with it, I would love to hear how.

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