On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 at 12:44pm, Jeremy Wadsack wrote > > Bingo. Those numbers at the beginning of each line indicate a bad version > > of tar on that client. You need at least 1.13.17. > > Uh, is there some way Amanad could *detect* this at backup time and > warn about it? Does that mean that all the backups are no good, even > though they recovered on some servers before? (I didn't test all > servers, I admit, I thought they were similar enough...)
IIRC, the backups are fine, it's just the indices that are hosed. Once you get a good version of tar, it's possible to rebuild the indices. > I specifically installed this version of tar in October to work with > Amanda. It's version 1.13, which is the latest version available on > any of the GNU mirrors. If I need a newer version can you tell me > where to find it? > docs/INSTALL for amanda-2.4.2p2 actually tells you to use either 1.12 plus patches or 1.13.19, which is available from <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar>. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
