On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:45:52PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:18:30AM -0400, Ray Shaw wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:53:59PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > <clip>
> > > I can also tell from personal experience that I haven't had trouble
> > > with GNU tar 1.13.17 on GNU/Linux/x86, but I still haven't been able
> > > to do backups reliably with 1.13.19 (it will generally abort part-way
> > > through the back-up; I suspect a network problem, but a bug in GNU tar
> > > still isn't ruled out)
> >
> > My systems (Debian potato):
> >
> > media:~$ tar --version
> > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.17
> >
> > media:~$ gcc --version
> > 2.95.2
> >
> > No problems here, except that the kernel isn't best friends with my
> > ATA tape drive sometimes. The joys of an academic budget! :)
>
> when you say no problems have you tested using amverify.
No, but I've tried restoring random files from tapes. And I've also
had to do some actual restores when another server went down (couldn't
simply move the disk over thanks to cursed proprietary CompaQ SCSI
disk interface...)
> I'm running the debian potato, and tar does not seem todo the right
> thing, the archives are corrupt. I'm about to start testing with a
> newer version of tar taken from sid most probably.
Well, at least now your bzip2 option will be l instead of I :)
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