Re: Problem with amverify

[John R. Jackson]

>Why does it try to match the name at all?  If you know the file on tape is a
>tar file, why not just run the designated tar command on the tape server?

The basic problem is, how do you know (programatically, in a shell script)
that it's a tar image?  All we have is the name of the dump program,
which might be "tar" or "gtar" or "gnutar" or "gtar-1.12+amanda-patches".
And this will get even more complicated when the DUMPER-API is implemented
and the client program is an arbitrary name.

>Ben

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]