On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:47:47PM -0500, dustin AT zmanda DOT com wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:32:13PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry, hate to ask this, but one of my DLE's has outgrown the
> > tape drive and I want to divide it into multiple TAR-DLE entries
> > but I'm having trouble finding an installable version of gtar 
> > that is a correct version for Amanda and my OS.
> > 
> > I'm running Solaris 9 and believe that I should use one of
> > gtar  1.13.19, 1.13.25, 1.15.1 per 
> 
> The 1.15 series is preferred; see
>   http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation#Dependencies

Newer being better, but is there a binary available that I can
install on my Solaris 9 system, if so, where can I download it from ?

> > Unfortunately the box is being a FW, and the replacement system
> > with the new (much larger) tape is not online yet.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean?

Alternatives to tar would be backing up from a different server
or using the new tape drive on the replacement platform, both
options being prohibited for various reasons. There was also the
missed opportunity not to have created a partition so large that
the tape drive couldn't handle it...but I must not have spoken
loudly enough in that particular meeting.


> Dustin
> 
> -- 
>         Dustin J. Mitchell
>         Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
>         http://www.zmanda.com/
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