On Wednesday 23 November 2005 11:13, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
>Matt Hyclak wrote:
>>On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:48:14PM +0100, Jehan PROCACCIA enlightened 
us:
>>>I use amnda to backup several servers, unfortunatly since a few weeks
>>>ago, indexes for amrecover don't work anymore.
>>>I check the faq-o-matic
>>>http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/24.html and I am not in
>>>any cases mentioned
>>>"index yes" is set, amrecover is call with "-C" , and I use Gnu tar
>>>tar-1.14-4 on my fedora core 3 backup systeme ( kernel 
>>> 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 amanda-server-2.4.4p3-4)
>>
>>tar 1.14 is not a good version of tar to use. See
>>http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2554919
>>
>>Matt
>
>OK but this is the version on the backup server, maybe what is
> important is the version on the client which is saved !?
>in that case the problem occurs on a client running
>$ rpm -q tar
>tar-1.13.25-13
>!!
>on http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2554919 the " 1.14.x is not
>good" as nothing to do with indexes .. no ?

I could be mistaken, but I think that actually was one of the1.14.x
problems.  I only ran it once though.  That was enough.  Now 1.15 is
out, and I've been running it without any hiccups for much of a year
now.

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