See URL for a note from the maintainer. Basic problem is that Amanda will do level-0 backups, but fails to estimate level-1+ backups with: /bin/tar: Unexpected field value in snapshot file Probably the easiest solution is to just stable one of the later versions of amanda -- I don't see any outstanding bugs for them at this point. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
And we specifically apply a patch to old amanda versions to work with the new tar. epatch ${FILESDIR}/patch-tar-1.14.90 Please search for old bugs on this matter. -r4 will be going stable in 2 weeks however.
That's a different bug -- the patch you mention is irrelevant to this bug. This problem occurs now for amanda-2.4.5 and tar-1.16, which are currently stable.
Resolving WONTFIX on the theory that this will be fixed in two weeks anyway.