On Wednesday 08 March 2006 06:50, Dave Ewart wrote:
>On Wednesday, 08.03.2006 at 11:34 +0000, Dave Ewart wrote:
>> I've just been caught out by something which is either
>>
>> (a) a limitation of AMANDA and/or tar/dump;
>> (b) a bug.
>
>A follow-up, prompted by a reply from Paul, indicating that I had
> indeed forgotten a couple of rather important bits of information!
>
>- The filesystem being discussed is ext3
>
>- AMANDA is using 'tar' (i.e. amanda.conf states: program "GNUTAR")
>
>On the client being backed-up:
>
>$ tar --version
>
>tar (GNU tar) 1.14

We believe this version of tar is borked.  Please get the older 1.13-19, 
1.13-25, or the newer 1.15-1.  For whatever reason, 1.14 was only 
visible on gnu.org for about 5 or 6 weeks, being replaced with 1.15-1, 
which for gnu.org, considering the speed they normally run at, is 
instantainious.  I've been running 1.15-1 since about a week after it 
became available without problems.

>Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>...
>
>Dave.

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