Re: GNU-Tar vs dump/restore ...

[The Hermit Hacker]

On 30 Dec 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Dec 29, 2000, The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > another good one is that incrementals don't work either, do they,
> > with GNU-Tar?
>
> They do.  That's the reason why Amanda requires GNU tar.

okay, if that is the case, what exactly is required to switch over to
gnu-tar?  I don't need to do it for all my file systems, but have one in
particular that I'd like to use it for ... and I'm assuming that I *can*
intersperse as required?  ie. use both dump and gnutar methods
interchangeably?