Ok so I finally took a chance and have installed the
latest amanda version 2.4.4 as follows:

./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk     \
        
--with-gnutar=/bin/tar                    \
--prefix=/usr/local/amanda

I thought this is what is needed to tell Amanda to use
GNUTAR instead of DUMP....however I'm not sure if that
worked. I say this because if I rename the dump
binary, amanda complains about unable to execute
/sbin/dump.

Any clues as to what I'm doing wrong ?

Thanks,

Ashwin.

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