Re: sendbackup has a hardcoded call to gtar
2003-10-10 16:29:02
Kirk Strauser wrote:
In the amanda-2.4.4.tar.gz source tarball, I noticed that
client-src/sendbackup-gnutar.c has a hardcoded call to "gtar" (as opposed to
plain "tar"). This caused backup failures on my FreeBSD server until I
symlinked /usr/bin/tar -> /usr/bin/gtar. I can't figure why that should be
the case. Any thoughts?
You have the source tarball, and the after unpacking it
and reading the docs/INSTALL, you usually do:
./configure --prefix=... --with-gnutar=... ...
If you leave out the --with-gnutar option, configure will look
itself for the gnutar command.
The reason it is built in, is because the client programs do not
need a configuration file.
A frequent trick is to compile with --with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/amgtar.
And the "amgtar" command can be as simple as a symlink to the good
version of gnutar, or a shell script that creates a snapshot before
running gnutar, or shuts down databases etc.
--
Paul
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