You might want to look at http://www.blastwave.org. The have a lot of
precompiled binary for Solaris SPARC and X86 and easy to update.

Robert


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT 
> amanda DOT org]
> On Behalf Of Brian Cuttler
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 2:53 PM
> To: dustin AT zmanda DOT com
> Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org; Chris Knight
> Subject: Re: gtar version
> 
> 
> 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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