Nigel Barker wrote:

I duly copied in runtar, and installed gnutar, but I still get an error for
gnutar.

You have to "./configure --with-gnutar=/your/path/gnutar ..." and
recompile the amanda client.
The absence/presence of GNUTAR is hardcoded into the amanda binaries.
(One of the TODO things).

And...

bash-2.03$ which tar
/netapp/packages/mus-local/SunOS/5.8/bin/tar
bash-2.03$ /netapp/packages/mus-local/SunOS/5.8/bin/tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.12

That's a bad version of tar with known bugs (which will bite you when
you want to restore). Use GNU tar 1.13.25 found in:

   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz

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