On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:40:39AM -0600, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote:
> 
> Another point I would mention having successfully tackled this wonderful
> part of Amanda: make sure the good version of tar is first in your path
> when recovering. Part of the reason I had problems is that when I went
> to 'tar t' my image, it was using old, crappy tar in /usr/sbin/, not
> good, healthy tar in /usr/local/bin/ this led me to believe I was doing
> it wrong, when in fact I just needed to clarify my path situation.

Having several "tar's" on my system too, including a gtar that
is not suitable, is one reason why I configure amanda to use
/usr/local/libexec/amgtar which I make sure is good.  Then whenever
working with amanda I use "amgtar".

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