Eric Siegerman wrote:

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.)

I use the new 1.14 and it works for me on Linux. Both backup and
restore tested. The earlier tar betas had problems but that change
was reversed (had to do with the "./" that files begin with in
current gnutar versions).

/Andreas Sundstrom