On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:19:42PM -0500, Jeanna Geier wrote:
> Any idea where 'backup' is being called from?
> 

amanda uses either dump or tar (or programs that act like
dump and tar) to actually do the backups.

Not finding a real dump, it appears that amanda's configure
script considered Slackware's /usr/sbin/backup to be a
dump-like program and is calling it with arguments that
are appropriate for dump.

I peeked at Slack's backup program and it is actually
a shell script that eventually calls gnutar.  It is
not really meant to be called by a scheduler like
amanda but as a standalone program.  Its arguments
are not those of tar either.

I didn't see a dump program available as a Slackware
package.  So I'd suggest you change your amanda.conf
and choose a dumptype that uses ' program "GNUTAR" '.
Then it will call your tar program for both backups
and restores using the appropriate arguments.

On Slackware 11 the gnutar version 1.16.1 which I
believe is reported to be a suitable version.
Some gnutar versions are not.

jl
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