On Wednesday 19 January 2005 09:43, Matt Lung wrote:
>Quoting Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>:
>> On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:25, Matt Lung wrote:
>> >I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3.
>> > Everything is great except when I use amrecover.  Trying to
>> > restore an old file I will get tar errors like this:
>> >
>> >tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member
>> >tar: Skipping to next header
>> >tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>> >
>> >Do I need to dump the vanilla tar (1.14.4), and compile from a
>> > special source version for amanda to work with tar backups?
>>
>> Its been tested (tar-1.14's) and found wanting.  However, I've
>> been using the latest 1.15-1 for about 3 days now with no detected
>> problems.
>>
>> If not that, then back up to 1.13-19 or 1.13-25, both are known
>> good with amanda.
>
>Roll back to that RPM version build for Fedora, or abandon the RPM
> and go with source?

Probably whatever is the handiest for you Matt.  I'm not allergic to 
srcs, but some are.

>> >--
>> >Matt Lung
>> >Midwest Tool & Die, Corp.
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