Jeff Silverman wrote:
> 
> 1) write a wrapper for gnu-tar, which what Paul Bijnens did ( I think).
> Where might I get a copy of the wrapper?

I did it too (for a different problem). Works fine. I used the following
as a starting template (thank you JJ):

ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gtar-wrapper.*


> Is my understanding correct?  Do other people have this problem and if
> so, how do they deal with it?

I have seen a similar discussion on the list with respect to doing a
backup of an active database. Search the list archives with the string
"DB backup", for example.

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Regards

Chris Karakas
Don´t waste your cpu time - crack rc5: http://www.distributed.net

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