Re: [Bug-tar] New install of 1.27, is refusing to backup certain subtrees

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 03 March 2014 01:44:15 Nathan Stratton Treadway did opine:

> On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 06:39:09 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
> >   /-- coyote /lib lev 0 STRANGE
> 
> [...]
> 
> >   ? /usr/local/bin/tar: ./init/rw: directory is on a different
> >   filesystem; not dumped
> >   
> >   /-- coyote /var lev 1 STRANGE
> 
> [...]
> 
> >   ? /usr/local/bin/tar: ./lock: directory is on a different
> >   filesystem; not dumped ? /usr/local/bin/tar: ./run: directory is on
> >   a different filesystem; not dumped ? /usr/local/bin/tar:
> >   ./lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs: directory is on a different filesystem; not
> >   dumped
> 
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 14:36:54 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > tmpfs, smack in the middle of an ext2-ext3 and journaled file system?
> > 
> > How the heck do they pull that off?  And better yet, is it fixable?
> 
> These are all simply virtual filesystems mounted on those respective
> mount points.
> 
> I don't remember which distribution you are running, but my Ubuntu Lucid
> server shows:
> 
>   # mount | grep -E "/var|/lib"
>   none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
>   none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>   none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
>   none on /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs type debugfs (rw,relatime)
> 
> (I'm not running NFS on this server, so that would explain why
> /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs doesn't exist.)
> 
> So I think your mount points are they way they should be....
> 
> 
> What has changed is that tar 1.27 now prints a warning message when it
> detects a filesystem boundary (when --one-file-system is in effect),
> while earlier versions didn't.
> 
> (So presumably the correct fix is to get Amanda updated to
> recognize/handle the new warning message.)
> 
>                                                       Nathan
> 
This reply is also going to the users list for their consideration,  thanks 
Nathan.
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