Rodrigo Pipoli wrote:
I installed, then, this package, also found on sunfreeware.com: tar-1.13.94-sol26-sparc-local
That is still a little too experimental. In tar 1.13.92 there were some incompatibilities that made it impossible to work together with amanda. They could have been resolved in 1.13.94, I don't know. The proven, stable version is still tar 1.13.25.
Taking a look at /tmp/amanda/amandad.debug, I've seen these paths (defaut?):
*** amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/local/bin" sbindir="/usr/local/sbin" amandad: libexecdir="/usr/local/libexec" mandir="/usr/local/man" amandad: CONFIG_DIR="/usr/local/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/dsk/" amandad: RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/rdsk/" DUMP="/usr/sbin/ufsdump" amandad: RESTORE="/usr/sbin/ufsrestore" amandad: COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/local/bin/gzip" amandad: UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/local/bin/gzip" amandad: MAILER="/usr/ucb/Mail" ***
GNUTAR="/.../.../..." is missing here. That means that the amanda was compiled without gnutar.
Currently a lot of configuration is compiled in. That's why most people don't like binary distributions. Download and compile your own if possible.
Checking this list history, I noticed that everybody solved this by recompiling the client using --with-gnutar=/correct/pathto/gnutar. This leads to my questions:
1) Is that the only way out? Or can I override this even with the amanda-client package from sunfreeware?
Yes. No.
2) In the /tmp/amanda/amandad.debug above, I see info about dump and gzip path, but not for tar. Does this package come ready for tar?
Not ready for tar.
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