I am having some problems with GNU tar and amanda. I am running amanda 2.4.2p2 with gnutar 1.13.19 (I have also tried 1.13.25) on Solaris 8 (sparc). The command line that I am running is:
/usr/local/bin/tar --create --file /tmp/conf.tar --directory /export/raid/conf --one-file-system --sparse --listed-incremental /private/amanda/var/amanda/gnutar-lists/nfs-1c-bvtn_export_raid_conf_5.new --totals . Replace /tmp/conf.tar for - when it is run by amanda. When I run this is produces a tar file that is about 5 megs in size and contains 2556 entries. If I run the same command line but without the --sparse I get a tar file that is about 23 megs and has 9535 enties. So, what is the --sparse doing here that is causing it not to backup all the files? What is the best way around this? I would hack the code to remove --sparse but I want to have an understanding of what it is doing first. Thanks, Luke ***************************************************** * Luke Miller Unix System Administrator * * Integra Telecom 503-748-4549 * *****************************************************