Gene,
        Thanks, our version of tar here is 1.13. Looking into upgrading
it.

        I am currently running amanda-2.4.4p1. I'll check into the
patches available.

        I'll post to the group the success/failure of all of this.


At 07:23 PM 12/16/2003, Gene Heskett wrote:

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 17:38, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>Mark_Conty AT cargill DOT com wrote:
>> Question:  Is it to be understood that versions of gnutar
>> _greater_ than 1.13.25 are also incompatible?  Or is it implied
>> that those are also valid & acceptable for use with Amanda?
>>
>> I ask because I'm seeing the same problem as is Mr. Kato, only I'm
>> on an HP-UX server, running gnutar 1.13.90 and Amanda 2.4.4p1.
>> chg-scsi is dumping to one of four tape drives in a 4/48 DLT
>> library.
>
>Wow, tar seems to be awake again.
>Download 1.13.92, compiled, tested.
>
>Not good, at least not without some patches to amanda...
>
>1. Every backup now generates a message
>
>       tar: Removing leading `./' from member names
>
>    Amanda flags this line for each DLE as "strange".
>
>2.  by removing the leading `./' now amrecover has trouble
>     and does not find anything back in the index.

I got an even better question Paul.  Why not file a bug report against
the new version?  And see what sort of a reason they give for
breaking all semblences of backwards compatibility.
I haven't tried it personally of course, and it appears thats my clue
to leave that sleeping dog lie quietly.

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