On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:34:42PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> > 
> > >    * Works with GNU tar 1.15.91 - work with new gtar state file format.
> > 
> > Can someone please explain what this exactly means?
> 
> The format to store information about the incrementals was changed. Since
> Amanda made some assumptions about this format (while she shouldn't have 
> cared,
> and just considered it as opaque files), this broke Amanda.
> After the fix, Amanda just treats the files as opaque files.
> 
> But be careful, at least the tar 1.15.91-2 from Debian is broken: it ignores
> the --one-file-system option when doing incrementals, causing exorbitant 
> backup
> sizes for any level > 0. I don't know about the upstream version, but since
> this bug has been reported almost 2 months ago, I'm afraid that one is broken,
> too.

Apparently the problem is more subtle. Thanks to the Debian bug tracking
system, I noticed this:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384508
tar: -l option changed meaning, without any warning!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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