I've just discovered that tar 1.14 might actually be buggy. On many of my linux boxes (clients and server) I have gnu tar 1.14 or 1.13.25
I'm understanding that I should instead download the latest tar version (or 1.15) and install this in /usr/local/bin and use this instead of the system's default in /usr/bin That's what I did for my solaris boxes. Now, amanda is configured and running just fine. I will only have to redo the config using --with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/tar on my linux box and then re-make amanda using the same parameter I used originally. The question I have is: When I will do the "make install" at the end, will it overwrite my amanda configuration files and disklists etc ? Thanks
