Re: gnutar only backing up directories

[Bernhard R. Erdmann]

Mike Hendrix wrote:
> 
> 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.

Did you report it to the maintainers of GNU tar?