Amanda-Users

Re: GNU tar versions

2005-01-16 16:40:50
Subject: Re: GNU tar versions
From: Andreas Sundstrom <sunkan AT zappa DOT cx>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:33:02 +0100
Kurt Raschke wrote:

On Jan 16, 2005, at 4:25 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote:

For the record:
plain gtar 1.12 needs to be patched to handle large files (> 2GB).
plain gtar 1.13 makes bad index-lists which amrecover cannot handle,
as does the rarely used 1.13.9x, which changed the index-format again
in an incompatible way.

In production environment I use only 1.13.19 or 1.13.25 currently.


There is also a tar 1.15 release out now; can anyone comment on its compatibility with AMANDA? I'm asking mainly because 1.13.25 is getting rather old.

-Kurt


There is an 1.15.1 and I have recently installed it but I have done very limited testing of it together with amanda. Will be doing some more test restores soon.

/Andreas