Dege, Robert C. wrote:

Jon LaBadie wrote:

gnutar jumped from 1.13.25 to 1.13.9? in one leap.

Yup.  1.13.92 had some incompatibility problems, especially
for use with amrecover.
Had a quick look at 1.13.94, and it seems better.
Still more testing needed.

Some reported problems with these very recent versions. I don't
recall the nature of the problems, check the archives. But a build
of 1.13.25 would seem a reasonable approach to see if that is the
problem.

I was originally having this problem with tar 1.13.25 && gzip 1.3.3.
I upgraded both tools to see if it had any affect.  When amanda
compresses a backup image, does it use gzip or does it use the built
in compression that is available in gtar (tar -z)?

It uses gzip.  AFAIK, "tar -z" is also implemented to pipe the
output through the external program gzip (as is "-j" with bzip2).
Did that change in tar 1.13.94 ?

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