On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:06:36PM -0700, Tim Metz wrote:
> Somewhere in the process extraneous (dumpdates(?)) are
> being included in the index files generated by HPUX clients.  

One (or the only?) source of these is using a bad version of GNU
tar.  1.13 has this problem; 1.13.19 and later versions don't.
1.13.25 has been the recommended gtar version for quite some time
(available from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz).

Version 1.14 has been out for a few months.  I don't know how
widely it's been tested with Amanda (I haven't tried it yet
myself), but there's at least one report that it works too:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/51267.
(That's not a given, by the way; people reported problems using
some of the betas (1.13.9x) with Amanda.)

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