Re: hdup2 and older tar versions

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:47 -0500, Boris Goldowsky wrote:
> The manual says that posix format "is the most flexible and feature-
> rich
> format", and it "will be the default format for future versions of GNU
> `tar'."  Perhaps hdup should always use this format.  For now I'll add
>    tar option = --format=posix
> to my hdup.conf and see how that works.

Unfortunately it doesn't work.  --format=posix is incompatible with 
  --listed-incremental.  I'm not really sure what the solution is here.

When given both options tar exits with status 2; for some reason this
does not register with hdup and it still reports a successful backup:

hdup: Using inclist /home/hdup/ant/etc/inclist.daily.
/bin/tar: GNU features wanted on incompatible archive format
Try `/bin/tar --help' for more information.

Hdup version.:  2.0.4

Host.........:  ant
Date.........:  2005-01-11
Scheme.......:  daily
Archive......:  ant.2005-01-11.daily.tar.bz2
Encryption...:  no
Archive size.:  14B
Elapsed......:  0:01:47
Status.......:  successfully performed backup

Bng
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Boris Goldowsky <[email protected]>