On Tuesday 14 November 2006 15:05, Gardiner Leverett wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> >> >> What version of tar are you using? It might be related to what I >> saw in my recent posting, where tar 1.16 now returns an error code >> of 1 when a file changes during the run. Previous versions returned >> a 2 in that case, which I think just caused Amanda to flag it as >> STRANGE, but a 1 is interpreted as failed, so Amanda retries from the >> beginning until either it works or you hit 'too many dumper retries', >> whatever number that is. I haven't seen any replies on what 'PARTIAL' >> means. > >Tar is 1.14. (It's in RHEL4 ES)
That one, as from gnu.org, was broken, but I don't know about the RHEL vesions. 1.13-19, 11.13-25, and 1.15-1 are known good versions. -- Cheers, Gene
