On Friday 18 August 2006 12:01, Ian Turner wrote:
>Toomas,
>
>GNU tar 1.13 should be good;

No Ian, plain 1.13 is broken, 1.13-19, 1.13-25, and 1.15-1 are the known 
good versions.

>The real troublemaker is tar 1.14, which 
> will silently corrupt your archives and throw away data. Unfortunately,
> some distributions patch their tar with other code, so some versions of
> tar 1.13 are problematic, whereas some versions of tar 1.14 are
> perfectly fine.

Never found a 1.14, any suffix (AFAIK there was only one), that would run 
ok here.  Maybe I didn't try them all, but I don't enjoy bleeding enough 
to go back and recheck. 1.14, FWIW, only had maybe a 45 day lifetime on 
the gnu.org ftp site that I know of before it was pulled in favor of 
1.15-1.

>That said, however:
>
>On Friday 18 August 2006 11:35, Toomas Aas wrote:
>> BTW, I currently use dump for backups, so gtar is only used for
>> indexes.
>
>No, Amanda will even use dump to generate indices. So actually you don't
> need tar at all.
>
>Cheers,
>
>--Ian

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