On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:24:56AM -0700, George Kelbley wrote:
> Suddenly one (and only one) of my clients is failing, and only on the
> file systems that use tar. Amanda reports that /bin/tar returned 2.
> Since tar is working on this machine I am perplexed. Amanda never gets
> the estimate. This just happened in last 2 days with no changes being
> made so we're pretty confused. The server and client and both running
> debain linux 2.1 and amanda-2.4.1p11.
There is a known bug in all version of gnutar.
Upgrade to tar-1.13.18 available at
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.18.tar.gz
with the patch from http://www.amanda.org/patches.html.
Jean-Louis
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