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

Nathan Stratton Treadway <[email protected]> writes:

>  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/

Thank you Nathan, that did the trick.

Now I have to understand what did the upgrade, these servers have no
automatic upgrade. But that is not and Amanda problem.

Olivier