Re: hdup2 and older tar versions

> The non-working tar version was 1.3.25, as I'm not sure at which
> version gnu tar is good enough for hdup2, I'm hestitating to 
> let hdup test this (either run-time or at compile-time),
> [and ofcourse, this problem will fix itself in due time :)]

Perhaps we can find out from the mailing list who has the oldest working
tar version, and put that in as the minimum?  I have GNU tar 1.14 .


By the way, I built 2.0.4 as an RPM yesterday and tried it out, it seems
to be running the backups nicely and processing all the excludes, and
using the correct .bz2 extension.

I tried a restore and there were various warning/error messages during
the process; I'm not sure how significant these problems might be.  The
files it's restoring from were written by older versions of hdup, so
it's possible that the problems have already have been fixed.  Here are
some examples from the output:

# hdup -V -s /home/bc/.mozilla restore ant 2005-01-05 /tmp/restore

/bin/tar: home/bc/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/Cache/_CACHE_003_:
invalid sparse archive member
/bin/tar: Skipping to next header

/bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

/bin/tar: Archive contains `\001\000\000\000\000\000\346\000\000\000\377
\202' where numeric off_t value expected
/bin/tar: Skipping to next header

/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
hdup: WARNING: Overview 'DOTEND' underflow!
hdup: WARNING: AN ERROR OCCURED!
hdup: WARNING: Overview 'DOTEND' underflow!
hdup: WARNING: Overview 'DOTEND' underflow!

Hdup version.:  2.0.4

Host.........:  ant
Date.........:  2005-01-07
Scheme.......:  restore (specific)
Encryption...:  no
Archives.....:  ant.2004-12-28.monthly.tar.bz2

The errors were apparently significant enough that it didn't go on and
try to restore from the weekly and daily backups.

Bng

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