Hello, The main reason that the FAQ and list suggest using gnutar >1.13.19 is that versions below are known to not exclude data correctly. If your need is to backup everything on your machine any version of tar should be ok. Andrew Hall On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, John Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm rolling out Amanda on our network, and using tar to do backups. > > I'm wondering why so many answeres in the FAQ and on this list say > to use the latest version of tar? I have FreeBSD boxes here ranging > from 2.2.5 to 4.1 (which is several years worth of releases) and > they all use GNU tar version 1.11.2 by default. Putting a new > version of tar on all of my machines when the FreeBSD developers > seem quite happy with the version they're using is something that > I'm cautious about. ;) > > In my testing so far I don't seem to have encountered any problems > with tar, so why should I upgrade? Pros/Cons? > > Thanks, > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tas Access > > Systems Administrator Phone: 1300 655 633 > Accounts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
