Re: tar troubles

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From: Christopher Green
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:00

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In article <35C86A68.D04CD5C8@herc.com>,
H. Wade Minter <hminter@herc.com> wrote:
>I'm creating a tape archive with gnu's tar, using the
>--listed-incremental option.  However, when I try to extract the tape
>using HP-UX's stock tar, it fails with a "directory checksum error."
>
>Creating the tape without --listed-incremental, I can extract using
>HP-tar with no problem.  Does anyone know why this would be happening?
>
>Thanks,
>Wade

The switches --incremental and --listed-incremental are for GNU-format
incremental backup files, which are not compatible with non-GNU tar.
Don't use these switches unless you will be reading the archive with
GNU tar.




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