On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:15, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Gene Heskett schrieb: >> I believe that more of the blame for defective backups can be laid at >> the gnu.org's (miss)handling of tar than at amanda's doorstep. Amanda >> has always had the possibility that something would sneak in, and it >> did at least twice on my watch, but was fixed each time in good time, >> less than a week IIRC. > >I was under the impression for years now that tar 1.13.25 was known as a >release that works well with Amanda. Nothing specific with that setup, >plain Suse Linux, etc. > It does, but that's not the release that now comes with the various distros. 1.15-1 also works well, if built from the tarball, but some distros have backported 1.16 things and their package is then broken for amanda's use according to old messages here.
>I don't blame Amanda for anything, I just wonder if anyone else has hit >that bug I seem to have hit, and which patch/release fixed that issue >(if it has been fixed already). > I don't recall seeing the version you were fighting with posted, did I miss it? ISTR I had a 2 day problem about 90 days ago. But don't recall the greasy details now. The recent ChangeLog might have some clues. >Is that issue known? Is it documented? Is it fixed already? >Jean-Louis, maybe you know best ... > >IMO this is an issue that should be communicated and discussed, >regardless where the bug comes from. > >> Tar on the other hand, has caused us no end of headaches and I've >> often wondered if we would be better off using star. I think its >> probably very good code, but Jeorg Schiling(sp) is such a difficult >> person to deal with that the ever buggy tar is perceived as the >> better choice. > >Agreed. Yes, but that still doesn't make Jeorg the least bit palatable. As an official old fart, I can be difficult, but I can't even hold the candle to light his way. >Stefan -- 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 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
