Tape backup using tar

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 13:17, 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
> 
> Somebody is prescient, its already been fixed.

FC4 didn't need that fix; it shipped with tar 1.15.1 in the first place.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>