[Bug-tar] Re: incremental backups and --one-file-system (version 1.25)

[Gour]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:55:35 -0800
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

> On 11/22/2010 07:05 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> > I know you saw the message from Martin Weigel [since you replied to
> > it], but I'm wondering if you noticed that the message included a
> > replacement line of code
> 
> No, sorry, I missed that.  Thanks for pointing it out.  I pushed the
> following patch; could you please give it a try?  It feels a bit
> strange to be fixing a bug by removing a hash table, so it'd be nice
> to have another pair of eyes look at this.

I'm Arcxlinux user in the process of testing Amanda in order to
migrate to it from Bacula.

Yesterday on #amanda, I met another new Amanda user who was puzzled
why his backups are empty.

Today I hit the same problem and wondered what's wrong with my
configuration trying almost everything.

Finally I found the message in the archives and inform Amanda people
in #amanda to update wiki
(http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:What_versions_of_GNU_Tar_are_Amanda-compatible%3F)

which now have the following note:

tar: 1.24 and 1.25 Bad*

*These versions have a fatal flaw which causes backups to only contain
 the root directory and no files. See
 http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02999.html and
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.amanda.general/37932. 


Considering that GNU Tar is the heat soul of Amanda and that the bug
has very serious consequences, here I'm submit my humble plea to GNU
Tar developers to make new release which fixes this issue as soon as
possible.

My (archlinux) distro ships with 1.25 and I had to manually downgrade
tar to 1.23 since 1.24 is affected as well.


Sincerely,
Gour

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