On Wednesday, 08.03.2006 at 07:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> >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.

Interesting.  Do you think that the behaviour I'm seeing is solely as a
result of 'tar' here?

Is the behaviour I describe something that you believe *should* *not*
happen with AMANDA when using 'tar'?

This package of 'tar' is the current default in Debian/Sarge and is
updated with various security issues without changing the version
number, so it's not entirely clear what version is really there under
the hood.

Dave.
-- 
Dave Ewart
davee AT ceu.ox.ac DOT uk
Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit
Cancer Research UK / Oxford University
PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370
Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac-uk.asc
N 51.7518, W 1.2016

signature.asc
Description: Digital signature