On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:52:16PM -0000, Stephen Yeates wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You should use gnutar, not the solaris tar.
> 
> Thanks for your prompt reply, I'm still a little unclear.
> 
> I already use the dumptype GNUTAR for the Solaris client 
> 
> define dumptype comp-user-tar {
>     program "GNUTAR"
>     comment "partitions dumped with tar"
>     options compress-fast, index, exclude-list
> "/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar"
>     priority medium
> }
> 
> I have gnutar in /usr/local/bin on the Solaris machine, how do
> I force Amanda to use this instead of the standard Solaris tar
> is GNUTAR not coded into Amanda at compile time?

>From your original posting:

>>> amrestore -p /dev/nst1 host /dir | tar tvpf -
                                       ^^^

Which tar is this?  Likely not /usr/local/bin/tar.


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