> Don't use 1.13.  Use 1.13.25 (which used to be on alpha.gnu.org, you may
> have to google for it).
>
> The text below is more readable on http://www.amanda.org/patches.html
> and has some working links.
>
> GNU tar 1.12: there are two known problems (described below) that can be
> fixed by applying tar-1.12.patch,
>      available in AMANDA distributions since release 2.4.0b5.
>           On SunOS 4.1.3, HP/UX and possibly other systems, GNU tar 1.12
> will report incorrect output sizes, because
>           printf does not understand "%llu".
>           GNU tar 1.12 would report Bad file number error messages at
> estimate-time for sparse files.
>      GNU tar 1.13: even though the second problem in release 1.12 is
> already fixed in 1.13, the other is only partially fixed.
>      Besides, there are a couple of other problems in release 1.13,
> related with exclude patterns and restoring, so its use is
>      not recommended. Hopefully, all of these problems will be fixed in
> GNU tar 1.14.
>      GNU tar 1.13.18: This patch fixes two problems in tar-1.13.18:
>           A workaround for a bug in fnmatch from glibc.
>           A bug that can cause a core dump.
>

Thanks for the responses. I'll check into this. I was kind of surprised that
it was working fine before, but now is not. Maybe it got to a certain size
to cause the problem? Who knows. Am going to update gnutar accordingly.


Thanks,

Tim