On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:55:43PM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 November 2002 20:23, Ivan Zaigralin wrote:
> 
> > > calcsize: gnutar not available on this system
> > > calcsize: gnutar not available on this system
> > > calcsize: gnutar not available on this system
> > > calcsize: gnutar not available on this system
> >
> > I tried to look this up in the provided documentation & forums,
> > but found nothing. What could be causing the problem?
> 
> Absolute and total stab in the dark here, but perhaps gnutar is not available 
> on this system ? If that is indeed the case, then backing up using tar is 
> going to be rather difficult. If gnutar is available on the system, then you 
> need to investigate why amanda isn't finding it - is it not in a standard 
> location ?

I ran into this problem while setting up my first Amanda install just
the other day.  I had to recompile with the
--with-gnutar=/path/to/gnutar flag on ./configure.  If someone knows of
a better way, I'm all ears.

Damon

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