On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:58:21AM -0700, Jerome Pioux wrote:
> >get/build a copy of 1.13.25
> 
> I got:
> >tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.13

Do not use that version.
It is known to have defects that affect amanda.


> 
> Don't know where to find the .25 ?...

Don't know where aix binaries might be found.
Source can be found at ftp://alpha.gnu.org


> 
> When I tried to restore the link, it failed:
...
> extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1
> 
> So I suppose that tar 1.13 can't read a backup that was done by 1.15 - am I 
> correct?
> 

The error could have been in the saving or in the recovery.

When you build/get 1.13.25 do the above test, but if it fails
also do a dump and recover with 1.13.25 before saying it really failed.

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