Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Frank Smith schrieb: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I'm using 1.16 (from Debian) since a while. Seems to work fine (no restore done so far, though ;-) General suggestion (maybe I already suggested that sometimes): Why not test for the version of tar inside amanda? configure could test for it at

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-23 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:37:46AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: General suggestion (maybe I already suggested that sometimes): Why not test for the version of tar inside amanda? configure could test for it at compile-time, amcheck at check-time. Grep tar --version, compare the result

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Dustin J. Mitchell schrieb: That's a great point! It would also be great to have the relevant versions more prominently displayed in the wiki -- currently the relevant documentation is scattered in a few forum posts and mailing list archives. Maybe this is a starting point (outdated a bit

gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Robert McCraw, Dustin Mitcher, Christopher McCrory, Peter Kunst, Amanda users, I want to thank you for your help. I did find an older version of gtar - that I believe to be working. Its a 1.13 but I don't see a more specific version number (from SFW collection). I will replace as suggested if I

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:29:12AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: I want to thank you for your help. I did find an older version of gtar - that I believe to be working. Its a 1.13 but I don't see a more specific version number (from SFW collection). I will replace as suggested if I have any

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jon, Oddly I can't seem to find the source (no way to keep a repository of related software at amanda.org ?). I received a suggestion that blastwave.org might even have a precompiled binary, but I can only find the current (?) version of 1.15.91 there. Perhaps I'm overlooking as section of that

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jon, Think I found a good kit for 1.15.1, which seems to be on the good list at amanda.org. Unless you advise otherwise I will try to build using that version. thank you, Brian On Tue, May 22,

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:10:02PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Jon, Think I found a good kit for 1.15.1, which seems to be on the good list at amanda.org. Unless you advise otherwise I will try to build using that version. It looks like 1.15.1 compiled easily on my Solaris 9 x86 box.

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:07:32PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:10:02PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Jon, Think I found a good kit for 1.15.1, which seems to be on the good list at amanda.org. Unless you advise otherwise I will try to build using that

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Brian Cuttler wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:07:32PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:10:02PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Jon, Think I found a good kit for 1.15.1, which seems to be on the good list at amanda.org. Unless you

Re: gtar and related issues

2007-05-22 Thread Frank Smith
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I'm using 1.16 (from Debian) since a while. Seems to work fine (no restore done so far, though ;-) 1.16 works fine with the newer 2.5.x releases of Amanda (I've been using it for a while on my home network), but if you use it on a 2.4.5 system the estimates will fail