Sun is delivering old versions of GNU tar: Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. bash-3.00$ /usr/sfw/bin/gtar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.14 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License; see the file named COPYING for details. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
You need version with --no-check-device in order to backup snapshot in zfs. So get the latest version of SMCtar and it should work fine. bash-3.00$ /usr/local/bin/tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.20 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Best regards GG > Dustin J. Mitchell > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 5:42 PM > To: McGraw, Robert P > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: runtar error that I do not understand > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:31 PM, McGraw, Robert P <[email protected]> > wrote: > > If I manually run the following gtar command I get a segmentation > fault > > > > /usr/sfw/bin/gtar --create > > Uh-oh .. time to open a Sun^WOracle support case? It looks like a bug > either in ZFS or GNU Tar.. > > Dustin > > -- > Open Source Storage Engineer > http://www.zmanda.com [McGraw, Robert P] Have you every tried star. I though I would give it a shot and see if it work ok at least until I can get the GNU tar working. Thanks Robert
