Re: hdup2 and older tar versions

James Treworgy <jamie-cnAK0CFwdQRWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:43:17 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.hdup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Miek Gieben <miekg@...> writes:

> 
> [On 07 Jan,  <at>  16:13, Boris wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] hdup2 and olde ..."]
> > > 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 :)]
> (a meant 1.13.25 in the above paragraph btw)
> 
> > files it's restoring from were written by older versions of hdup, so


I am still using 1.13.25, and it works fine. However I hacked it in order to
make it ignore ctime and only use the mtime when comparing files. Perhaps
something changed in more recent versions related to this?