Gene Heskett schrieb: > I believe that more of the blame for defective backups can be laid at > the gnu.org's (miss)handling of tar than at amanda's doorstep. Amanda > has always had the possibility that something would sneak in, and it > did at least twice on my watch, but was fixed each time in good time, > less than a week IIRC.
I was under the impression for years now that tar 1.13.25 was known as a release that works well with Amanda. Nothing specific with that setup, plain Suse Linux, etc. I don't blame Amanda for anything, I just wonder if anyone else has hit that bug I seem to have hit, and which patch/release fixed that issue (if it has been fixed already). Is that issue known? Is it documented? Is it fixed already? Jean-Louis, maybe you know best ... IMO this is an issue that should be communicated and discussed, regardless where the bug comes from. > Tar on the other hand, has caused us no end of headaches and I've > often wondered if we would be better off using star. I think its > probably very good code, but Jeorg Schiling(sp) is such a difficult > person to deal with that the ever buggy tar is perceived as the > better choice. Agreed. Stefan