Eric and Andreas,

Thanks for your help with this.
Indeed my HPUX clients were running GNU tar version 1.13;  
after upgrading them to 1.13.94 things are working fine.

  - Tim Metz

> 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
>