> And did you put a file   "exclude.gtar"   in there?

Yes, I did, and that got rid of the message.  But if amanda needs this
file, why doesn't it just create it?

Amanda doesn't need it --- but you told her to look for it.
It's a file that YOU fill in,   to say what to exclude from
the gnutar backup.   If you don't want to use it,   remove
the  "exclude= yada yada yada /exclude.gtar"  line
from your dumptype definition.

Deb Baddorf
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