On Wednesday 23 December 2015 17:19:59 Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 05:02:46PM -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > It's kind of annoying that over a span of many years gnu tar seems > > to have recurrent bugs that cause trouble with Amanda. I'm sure I've > > done quite a few recoveries on this system over the last year, and > > this is the first time it has failed. Does anyone know how to > > predict the circumstances when it fails? I suppose that would lead > > to fixing it more easily. > > In the past, when I found a working gnutar, I made a copy of it > as something like /usr/local/bin/amgtar and told amanda to use > that copy. That way /usr/bin/tar can be updated and not affect > amanda with new bugs. > > Jon
Good self-defense Jon. My question, directed at the guy in te mirror, is why-in-hell didn't I think of that. I must be getting old. I'm with Chris H., it almost seems as if the tar folks are trying to poison the well for amanda with some of their antics. Classic NIH syndrome I believe. I must have at least 3 workarounds for stuff that used to just work, in my amanda.configs now. And I haven't been able to use it for amanda's estimate getter in over a year. One client freezes up, long before the timeouts expire and the whole backup fails dead in the water. And no one can tell me that its happened to them. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
