Quoting Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:25, Matt Lung wrote: > >I have hard disk backups setup using amanda on Fedora Core 3. > > Everything is great except when I use amrecover. Trying to restore > > an old file I will get tar errors like this: > > > >tar: ./dir/somefile: invalid sparse archive member > >tar: Skipping to next header > >tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > > > >Do I need to dump the vanilla tar (1.14.4), and compile from a > > special source version for amanda to work with tar backups? > > Its been tested (tar-1.14's) and found wanting. However, I've been > using the latest 1.15-1 for about 3 days now with no detected > problems. > > If not that, then back up to 1.13-19 or 1.13-25, both are known good > with amanda.
Roll back to that RPM version build for Fedora, or abandon the RPM and go with source? > > >-- > >Matt Lung > >Midwest Tool & Die, Corp. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
