Tape backup using tar

Terry Polzin fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Thu Aug 4 17:17:30 UTC 2005


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
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