Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
On 01/05/17 07:27 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: Jean-Louis — do you know if one can use the newer versions of tar to recover stuff that was backed up using these “bad” versions of tar?Or does the recording version have to be newer too? The bug affect the recovery only, backup done with 1.27

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 May 2017 22:09:11 Alan Hodgson wrote: > On Monday 01 May 2017 21:28:01 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 01 May 2017 19:27:04 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > > Jean-Louis — do you know if one can use the newer versions of tar > > > to recover stuff that was backed up using these “bad”

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday 01 May 2017 21:28:01 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 May 2017 19:27:04 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > Jean-Louis — do you know if one can use the newer versions of tar to > > recover stuff that was backed up using these “bad” versions of tar? > > Or does the recording version have to be

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 May 2017 19:27:04 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > Jean-Louis — do you know if one can use the newer versions of tar to > recover stuff that was backed up using these “bad” versions of tar? > Or does the recording version have to be newer too? > > (I.e. maybe Gene could still test using

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 May 2017 19:27:04 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > Jean-Louis — do you know if one can use the newer versions of tar to > recover stuff that was backed up using these “bad” versions of tar? > Or does the recording version have to be newer too? > > (I.e. maybe Gene could still test using

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Jean-Louis — do you know if one can use the newer versions of tar to recover stuff that was backed up using these “bad” versions of tar?Or does the recording version have to be newer too? (I.e. maybe Gene could still test using his existing backups. And this would mean that older

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 May 2017 16:37:11 Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: > Gene, > > Which version of tar are you using? 1.27.1 > Read the thread at > https://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg48929.html > > Jean-Louis > Says 1.29 fixes this. I'll have to build it from the tarball, 1.27.1 is

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On May 1, 2017, at 3:37 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau > wrote: > > Gene, > > Which version of tar are you using? > Read the thread at > https://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg48929.html > > Jean-Louis The solution in that thread boils down to this:

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Gene, Which version of tar are you using? Read the thread at https://www.mail-archive.com/amanda-users@amanda.org/msg48929.html Jean-Louis On 30/04/17 10:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > The last time I used amrecover I had to make a tempdir on the same disk > as the stuff I

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 May 2017 15:53:10 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > On May 1, 2017, at 2:38 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > On Monday 01 May 2017 13:55:09 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > >>> On Apr 30, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Gene Heskett > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> On

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On May 1, 2017, at 2:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 01 May 2017 13:55:09 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > >>> On Apr 30, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Gene Heskett >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Sunday 30 April 2017 23:46:42 Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Apr 30,

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 May 2017 13:55:09 Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > On Apr 30, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > On Sunday 30 April 2017 23:46:42 Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:52:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>>

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-05-01 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On Apr 30, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 30 April 2017 23:46:42 Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:52:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Greetings all; >>> >>> The last time I used amrecover I had to make a tempdir on the same

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 April 2017 23:46:42 Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:52:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > The last time I used amrecover I had to make a tempdir on the same > > disk as the stuff I wanted to recover was on. thats ok because I > > figure I can

Re: amrecover isn't

2017-04-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:52:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > The last time I used amrecover I had to make a tempdir on the same disk > as the stuff I wanted to recover was on. thats ok because I figure I > can always copy it back to where it goes. > > The last time I ran

amrecover isn't

2017-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; The last time I used amrecover I had to make a tempdir on the same disk as the stuff I wanted to recover was on. thats ok because I figure I can always copy it back to where it goes. The last time I ran it, I added a directory and it recovered everything under that directory.