On Wednesday 19 January 2005 09:43, Matt Lung wrote: >Quoting Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:25, Matt Lung wrote: >> >I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. >> > Everything is great except when I use amrecover. Trying to >> > restore an old file I will get tar errors like this: >> > >> >tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member >> >tar: Skipping to next header >> >tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers >> > >> >Do I need to dump the vanilla tar (1.14.4), and compile from a >> > special source version for amanda to work with tar backups? >> >> Its been tested (tar-1.14's) and found wanting. However, I've >> been using the latest 1.15-1 for about 3 days now with no detected >> problems. >> >> If not that, then back up to 1.13-19 or 1.13-25, both are known >> good with amanda. > >Roll back to that RPM version build for Fedora, or abandon the RPM > and go with source?
Probably whatever is the handiest for you Matt. I'm not allergic to srcs, but some are. >> >-- >> >Matt Lung >> >Midwest Tool & Die, Corp. > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
