Gene,
Thanks, our version of tar here is 1.13. Looking into upgrading
it.I am currently running amanda-2.4.4p1. I'll check into the patches available.
I'll post to the group the success/failure of all of this.
At 07:23 PM 12/16/2003, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 17:38, Paul Bijnens wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Question: Is it to be understood that versions of gnutar >> _greater_ than 1.13.25 are also incompatible? Or is it implied >> that those are also valid & acceptable for use with Amanda? >> >> I ask because I'm seeing the same problem as is Mr. Kato, only I'm >> on an HP-UX server, running gnutar 1.13.90 and Amanda 2.4.4p1. >> chg-scsi is dumping to one of four tape drives in a 4/48 DLT >> library. > >Wow, tar seems to be awake again. >Download 1.13.92, compiled, tested. > >Not good, at least not without some patches to amanda... > >1. Every backup now generates a message > > tar: Removing leading `./' from member names > > Amanda flags this line for each DLE as "strange". > >2. by removing the leading `./' now amrecover has trouble > and does not find anything back in the index.
I got an even better question Paul. Why not file a bug report against the new version? And see what sort of a reason they give for breaking all semblences of backwards compatibility. I haven't tried it personally of course, and it appears thats my clue to leave that sleeping dog lie quietly.
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