The current distributed version of tar (1.25) has bugs in it which prevent it working correctly for backups. This is NOT a cygwin only defect. The defect is upstream and resolved in version 1.26.
Refer to bug: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg02999.html For use with amanda backup: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/FAQ:What_versions_of_GNU_Tar_are_Amanda-compatible%3F This is addressed in version 1.26. Would it be possible to get an updated version sometime soon? Thanks in advance. Mark. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
