On Sunday 09 November 2008, Frank Smith wrote:
>My Debian lenny system has tar 1.20, and tar --help shows that as
>a run-time option:
>
>      --no-check-device      do not check device numbers when creating
>                             incremental archives

Oohkaay. So I changed the default for that member of the option array in 
amgtar from 1, which I assume enables this by default, to a 0, which I assume 
disables it by default, rebuilt & re-installed.

But, I do not believe that actually puts amgtar into the pipeline, so it will 
not have any effect if I'm correct.  There is a new APPLICATION keyword in 
amanda.conf, but the details on how to use it are, shall we say, sparse.

Any attempt to set that up according to the man page for the new amanda.conf 
fails miserably.

Is this 'define application "name" {option-name option-value}' supposed to be 
in a section all by itself, and above Global if I want to use it in Global?

Trying to put it inside the Global definition sure doesn't work.
>
>Frank
>
Thanks Frank, from somebody who thinks he must be a blithering idiot to 
everyone else by now.

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