>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 ...
>they all use GNU tar version 1.11.2 by default. ...
As I recall, to do incremental backups, Amanda needs features not
available in 1.11. The first version that had those features is
1.12, however it had a couple of bugs for which there are patches at
www.amanda.org.
As Andrew said, the "use the latest comments" refer to 1.13, if you
want to use it rather than 1.12. Pretty much everything from "plain"
1.13 up to 1.13.16 were broken in one way or another. I don't think
we've heard any problems from people using 1.13.19.
>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. ;)
The FreeBSD developers probably don't use many of the GNU tar features.
Amanda does a lot more than just "tar cf ...".
>In my testing so far I don't seem to have encountered any problems
>with tar ...
Really? I'm surprised 1.11.* would work at all with Amanda.
>John
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
