On Tuesday 14 November 2006 15:05, Gardiner Leverett wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>
>> What version of tar are you using?  It might be related to what I
>> saw in my recent posting, where tar 1.16 now returns an error code
>> of 1 when a file changes during the run.  Previous versions returned
>> a 2 in that case, which I think just caused Amanda to flag it as
>> STRANGE, but a 1 is interpreted as failed, so Amanda retries from the
>> beginning until either it works or you hit 'too many dumper retries',
>> whatever number that is.  I haven't seen any replies on what 'PARTIAL'
>> means.
>
>Tar is 1.14.  (It's in RHEL4 ES)

That one, as from gnu.org, was broken, but I don't know about the RHEL 
vesions. 1.13-19, 11.13-25, and 1.15-1 are known good versions.


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Cheers, Gene