Quoting Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 19 January 2005 09:43, Matt Lung wrote: > >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? > > Probably whatever is the handiest for you Matt. I'm not allergic to > srcs, but some are.
Thanks for the help! I'm not allergic to srcs at all, but I've been yelled at by the boss for using src instead of RPM's. Two different viewpoints and only one that matters sort of thing here. I just wanted to make sure that there was not a big difference as far as code goes and making amanda work correctly between the src and rpms. I guess there is not. Thanks again! > > >> >-- > >> >Matt Lung > >> >Midwest Tool & Die, Corp. > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly > Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message > by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
