Re: Amanda is crashing on [runtar invalid option: -]

Nathan Stratton Treadway <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:12:30 -0400

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On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 2:07 AM Olivier <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have had Amanda running for over a decade, yesterday I had no issue at
> all but last night, my backups for Ubuntu machines started crashing
> consistently with the error:
> strange(?): runtar: error [runtar invalid option: -]
>

The just-released amanda package upgrade seems to have a regression for
GNUTAR DLEs; see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/amanda/+bug/2012536/

Nathan