Re: Backward compatibility

[Stephen Boswell]

Thanks Paul for getting back to me. I thought it was odd and dug a little deeper and these first 3 tapes were not Tar so hopefully the client can figure out how to use dd to dump all files to disk!  : D

Steve

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:32 PM
To: Stephen Boswell <Stephen.Boswell@iongeo.com>
Cc: bug-tar@gnu.org <bug-tar@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Backward compatibility

 

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On 2/26/21 6:53 AM, Stephen Boswell wrote:
> I have written tapes using tar 1.26 on tape server with
> centos-release-7-4.1708.el7.centos.x86_64
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> My client has tar version 1.23 and cannot extract tarball’s.  Any solution?

I'm surprised, as I just now created a tar archive with tar 1.26 and
extracted it with tar 1.23, and there was no problem.

I expect we'll need more details to know what the issue is. It might
have nothing to do with the tar version.

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