We've been using amanda 2.4.4 for a while now, but we are still
having a few problems with tar and solaris.  We had been getting
this error on a few of solaris machines:

--snip--
/-- homes01  /disk1/homes lev 0 FAILED [/usr/local/sfw/bin/gtar returned 2]
sendbackup: start [homes01:/disk1/homes level 0] 
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/sfw/bin/gtar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/local/sfw/bin/gtar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: time_t value 18446744073616021196 too large (max=68719476735)
| Total bytes written: 1442283520
? gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
sendbackup: error [/usr/local/sfw/bin/gtar returned 2]
\--------
--/snip--

We were using a slightly older version of gtar, so we installed
1.13.92.  Now we are getting this for nearly all of our solaris machines:

--snip--
/-- homes01    /disk1/homes lev 0 STRANGE
sendbackup: start [homes01:/disk1/homes level 0]
sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/local/sfw/bin/gtar
sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/bin/gzip -dc |/usr/local/sfw/bin/gtar -f... -
sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
sendbackup: info end
? gtar: Removing leading `./' from member names
| Total bytes written: 10240 (10KiB, 81KiB/s)
sendbackup: size 10
sendbackup: end
\--------
--/snip--


So I went looking around to see what version of tar I should
be using with Amanda 2.4.4, but I couldn't find a definite answer
anywhere.  Have I overlooked it?  Either way, could someone
point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

--Charlie Wiseman
System Administrator
Computer Science Dept.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville