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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