On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:24:17PM +1300, Steve Wray wrote:
> Its interesting that they don't configure it to use gnu tar...
> and so far as I can tell, none of the config that they give
> would use gnutar to backup Solaris boxes.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:02, Galen Johnson wrote:
> > Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > >Recently posted to the "Big Admin"
> > >section of Sun's website is a pretty
> > >long article on setting up amanda.
> > >
> > >Haven't read it yet, so I'm unable
> > >to comment on its content.
> > >
> > >http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=47250049-814460813:1068762499806
> > >
> > >   or
> > >
> > >http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/backups_amanda.html
> >

Strictly a guess at the rationale:

  standard Solaris does not come with gnutar
  an optionally installed package does include it,
  but it is version 1.13, not suitable for amanda.

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