On Friday 18 August 2006 12:01, Ian Turner wrote: >Toomas, > >GNU tar 1.13 should be good;
No Ian, plain 1.13 is broken, 1.13-19, 1.13-25, and 1.15-1 are the known good versions. >The real troublemaker is tar 1.14, which > will silently corrupt your archives and throw away data. Unfortunately, > some distributions patch their tar with other code, so some versions of > tar 1.13 are problematic, whereas some versions of tar 1.14 are > perfectly fine. Never found a 1.14, any suffix (AFAIK there was only one), that would run ok here. Maybe I didn't try them all, but I don't enjoy bleeding enough to go back and recheck. 1.14, FWIW, only had maybe a 45 day lifetime on the gnu.org ftp site that I know of before it was pulled in favor of 1.15-1. >That said, however: > >On Friday 18 August 2006 11:35, Toomas Aas wrote: >> BTW, I currently use dump for backups, so gtar is only used for >> indexes. > >No, Amanda will even use dump to generate indices. So actually you don't > need tar at all. > >Cheers, > >--Ian -- 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) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
