Tape backup using tar

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:17 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 12:49 pm, Stuart Bailey wrote:
> > > >> What version of tar please?
> > > >
> > > >(GNU tar) 1.14
> > >
> > > Bingo!
> > >
> > > tar has a rather spotted history, and 1.14 is known on the amanda list
> > > to be broken. 1.13-19, 1.13-25, and 1.15-1 are kown to work
> > > correctly. 1.13 plain is busted, and 1.14 only lasted a month or two.
> > > Nuke it, and go get either the older 1.13-25, or 1.15-1.
> >
> > Do you know if this will become a yum update?
> It must be:
> 
> [tpolzin at excaliber ~]$ rpm -q tar
> tar-1.15.1-7.FC4

The OP is using FC3, for which the latest update is tar-1.14-5.FC3.

I'd suggest getting the FC4 SRPM and rebuilding it.

Paul.
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