On Thursday, August 20, 2015 03:25:04 PM you wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using amanda for some years without problems on Debian > systems using Debian packages of amanda. Now I found a problem. Most > probably because I changed to amgtar instead of normal gnu tar. > > When restoring using amrecover, the add command is no longer > recursive. If I tag a directory, it only extracts the directory, not > is contents and children. For what I found until now, the amrecover > calls after a chain of calls, tar xcf - --files-from=<file>. > > For the version of tar that I am using,v. 1.27.1-2+b1, --files-from is > not recursive option. This is what I found until now. Anyone is > using amgtar without problems? Any comments or suggestions? > > > Jose M Calhariz
I believe this is a known bug with recent versions of gnu tar. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-09/msg00006.html
