On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:48:32AM +0200, Amon Ott wrote:
> 
> The tar wrapper script seems to work fine now, thank you.
> 
> However, there is some strange Amanda 2.4.3b4 behaviour in amrecover: If you 
> try to restore with an Amanda compilation (e.g. on another system), which had 
> another --with-gnutar= value to configure, it just fails with an error that 
> e.g. restore of /usr/local/sbin/tar-wrapper and the following exec failed.
> 
> To me it seems that the GNUTAR backup type is not recognized, so amrecover 
> assumes UNKNOWN and tries a string comparison to find the correct restore 
> program instead of using the compiled path.

I get something similar happening on my 2.4.2 system.  On my w2k/cygwin box,
"winnie", gtar is in a different location than on my tapehost, "butch".
Yet if I put a copy of gtar on butch, in the same location as on winnie,
then try to do an amrecover it still says the gtar program is not there.

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