Recently I had to swap out one of our solaris boxes and had to redo amanda
on it. I ended up running with GNU tar 1.12 plus patches, because even
1.1.3.17 was exhibiting the same behavior -- ie. backing up only directories
and not files. I am glad I switched back to 1.12 because I had a major disk
failure and had to restore from backup....I am very, vary glad I switched
back.
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, John R. Jackson wrote:
>
> >This has caused me to compile GNUtar on the Sun machines and
> >recompile Amanda for use with the same so that I can break the
> >backups of the disks into smaller chunks.
>
> Which version of GNU tar are you using? You **must** use either 1.12 and
> apply the patches in the Amanda distribution (or on the web page), or get
> the latest version (1.13.17?) from alpha.gnu.org. If you have an earlier
> version of 1.13, it's almost for certain broken in one way or another.
>
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