--On Monday, April 11, 2005 23:39:01 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" <monitor AT 
oops.co DOT at> wrote:

> Hi, Paul,
> 
> on Montag, 11. April 2005 at 21:15 you wrote to amanda-users:
> 
> PB> My current knowledge:
> 
> PB> 1.13.19 is good.  However it still sets return code 2 for some
> PB>      infrequent conditions even with --ignore-failed-read option.
> PB>      This results in amanda thinking the total archive is bad,
> PB>      and drops the complete archive.  Those conditions are very rare
> PB>      on a quiet filesystem.
> 
> PB> 1.13.25: no problems found (yet).
> 
> PB> 1.13.9x  have changed the format of "tar -t", resulting in amrecover
> PB>      not able to use the indexes.
> 
> PB> 1.14.x writes good archives, but when restoring, it has trouble
> PB>      with sparse files; the sparse file itself, and *all* files after it
> PB>      cannot be read anymore.  But you can read the archive with a good
> PB>      tar version (i.e. the tar images produced are fine).

>>From looking at the tar changelogs, it appears there were only two 1.14
versions: 1.14 and 1.14.90.  It looks like 1.14.90 may have fixed the sparse
file problem, but I saw this disturbing comment:
  * When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option
  prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices
  from being purged.

  With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create
  incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they
  would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the
  back up. This change fixes the bug.

I don't know if 'previous versions' means 'previous 1.14 versions' or
'all versions until now'.

Frank

> 
> PB> 1.15.1 no problems found (yet).   I'm using this version on most of
> PB>      my clients since january this year, and have already done
> PB>      successful restore too.
> 
> Thanks a lot, Paul, for this listing. At slashdot.org I would moderate
> this as "Informative" ;-)
> 
> If anyone has had the same or different experiences, please let us
> know. I'll include this information in the docs as soon as things
> have cleared up.
> 
> -- 
> best regards,
> Stefan
> 
> Stefan G. Weichinger
> mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at
> 
> 
> 



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