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Re: buggy gnutar

2003-01-18 11:30:13
Subject: Re: buggy gnutar
From: Jean-Francois Malouin <Jean-Francois.Malouin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca>
To: AMANDA users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:01:36 -0500
* Joshua Baker-LePain (jlb17 AT duke DOT edu) [20030117 16:54] thus spake:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 4:17pm, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote
> 
> > So after going through some index files and cleaning them and
> > verifying that amrecover can deal with them I wonder what else might
> > have gone wrong using this gnutar version.
> 
> ISTR that the backups themselves are actually fine.

yes, I can restore from tapes but not throught amrecover obviously.

> 
> > Does someone knows which sub-version of gnutar 1.13 are affected with
> > this bug?
> 
> .17, .19, and .25 have all been reported to work.  I think .25 is the only 
> one available on alpha.gnu.org (don't know about freeware.sgi.com).

Thank you all for the info,
regards,
jf

> 
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University

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