On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress AT arcor DOT 
de> wrote:
> A while ago I started to write a simple wrapper script for star (you have to
> re-build amanda, as the "tar" application it calls is hard-coded in the
> executable), but did not yet succeed.  I probably have to look deeper into
> the sources to see which options might be used with gtar, so the proper star
> replacements are mapped.  Of course, it would also make sense to include a
> "star" backup mode into amanda, as the extended attributes problem ist
> rather common.  If anyone else did that work already, I would highly
> appreciate any pointers!

You should take a look at the application API -- it will make such a
creation much easier!

Dustin

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