On Thursday 19 September 2002 03:48, Amon Ott wrote:
>On Tuesday, 10. September 2002 09:43, Amon Ott wrote:
>> On Monday, 9. September 2002 18:00, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:10:30AM -0400, Bort, Paul wrote:
>> > > There is a tar-wrapper script for people who don't have
>> > > GNUTar or need
>
>to
>
>> do
>>
>> > > something non-tar, like dumping a database. Search the
>> > > amanda-users list archives for it. It works with 2.4.x.
>> >
>> > I have attached the script to which I think Paul refers.
>> >
>> > I saved it last January but never checked it out.
>> > Don't ask me if or how it works,
>>
>> Thank you - I will have a closer look and probably adapt and
>> test it
>
>tomorrow.
>
>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.

Have you tried sneakernetting the right version of gnutar to the 
machine, and putting it in the same place as it was configured for?

Versions of gnutar before 1.13-19 are also likely suspects, and most 
are using 1.13-25 now.

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