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From: bart@videovax.tv.Tek.com (Bart Massey)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Re: GNU Tar experience sought
Message-ID: <5436@videovax.tv.Tek.com>
Date: 25 May 89 20:07:44 GMT
References: <8905232207.AA18283@bu-it.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: bart@videovax.tv.tek.com (Bart Massey)
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Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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In article <8905232207.AA18283@bu-it.BU.EDU> eap@BU-IT.BU.EDU (Eric A. Pearce) writes:
> 
>   I am thinking of using GNU Tar on a "production" system for backups.
>   I'd be interested in hearing war stories and problems with relying
>   on it for all your backups.  I know some of FSF machines use it.

The version I'm currently using (1.05) has a memory leak which kills it on
our VAX (a VAX750 running 4.3 Tahoe with about 30M of VM and 1.5G of files
to back up) way into a full level 0 dump.  I don't know yet if later versions
have the same problem, and I haven't had time to diagnose and fix it.  I
posted some bugfixes and enhancements to this group a bit ago -- see that
article for details...

Once I get it debugged, we will be relying on it for all our backups
on this machine -- it's features are just what I want.

					Bart Massey
					TV Systems Engineering
					M.S. 58-639
					627-5320
					bart@videovax.tv.tek.com