>       I've got the client side of amanda compiled and installed
>on MacOS X, but it won't use dump. I think I've got gnutar going on
>it now, we'll see tonight. But I'd rather use dump, unless someone 
>can tell me why using gnutar would be so much better. 

For one reason, dump doesn't work on MacOS X :-).  At least, according to
my wizard.  As I understand it, it would only work for a UFS file system,
not HFS.

And we couldn't find the restore program.  Which makes dump kind of
useless :-).

>       I haven't been able to get the server side to work, it
>can't find start_time ...

Care to post the exact error message(s)?

>       Second, I back up an NT and a Win2000 machines with amanda,
>and I get tons of 'strange' (amanda's word) output from it. Is there
>a way to stop that?  ...
>The output is basically a directory listing.

You may need to change the list of regular expressions in sendsize*.c
and sendbackup*.c, but I thought this problem had been taken care of.

What version of Amanda are you working with?

What version of Samba?

What are the "strange" lines it's reporting?

>Is it samba or gnutar putting out the messages?  ...

It's Samba.  Gnu tar is not used for Samba/PC backups.  Samba comes with
its own tar.

>Paul.

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

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