On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> Just to follow up on this, I was forced to downgrade to tar version
> 1.15.1 before things worked correctly and without the "Unexpected field
> value" messages.  Things were just not working as expected with 1.15.91.

Indeed.

JFYI, Debian recently released an update of 1.15.91 (1.15.91-2.1), which fixes
some bugs w.r.t. restores of incrementals.
But the issue with creating incrementals and escaping to different file systems
is still there :-(

> ->>In response to your message<<-
>   --received from Paul Yeatman--
> >
> > I have run into the exact same problem on a client that is running
> > Debian (Etch) linux using tar version 1.15.91 (and amanda 2.5.0p2-1).
> > I have now noticed, given your message, that things worked fine with
> > the first Debian tar 1.15.91 package but, when a revised tar 1.15.91
> > package was released end of July, 2 of the 3 partitions on the client
> > began failing during the size estimation stage with the same tar
> > error message, "Unexpected field value".

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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