There is a tar-wrapper script for people who don't have GNUTar or need to do something non-tar, like dumping a database. Search the amanda-users list archives for it. It works with 2.4.x.
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> AFAICS, Amanda "out of the box" does not support pre-/post-backup
> triggers ("stop database before backup and start it when finished"),
> nor does it support adapting a database specific backup tool.
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> The 2.5 line may have some support for this.
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> hauke
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