we recently dumped RH EL3 & EL4 gtar because it was not working right at all with large amounts of files and --incremental-file (would *silently* not back up many files). so we went with version gtar 1.15.2 (cvs 20051214) which seems to fix that problem.
however, today we were doing a restore (tar on tape created and extracted with this new version) and encountered many "lone zero block" & tons of "skipping header" messages. i did a search and found a bunch of posts from like 2003/4 about the lone zero being fixed so am wondering why we're seeing it again? if we use --ignore-zeros it will continue on but don't have a good feeling about the whole thing. we also saw spurious "does not look like tar" and "unknown file type `p'" messages, tape drive is not reporting any errors and we tried multiple drives and different tapes. _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
