On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:47:26PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote:
> Frank and Alex, thanks for replying. Alex, you're right, I believe,
> GNUtar behaves differently than tar with respect to symbolic links, and
> I'm using GNUtar:
> amanda@cn2:/var/lib$ tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.14
> 

Likely unrelated to your current difficulties,
but plain 1.14 gnutar has be reported to have
difficulties with amanda.  I haven't followed
the discussion closely, but I think 1.14.1 and
1.14.2 are both considered ok.  A complicating
factor is the report that some linux vendors,
I think RH was mentioned, supply a 1.14 with
the later bug fix patches applied.  These work
ok also but because they are based on the 1.14
code, that is the version reported.

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