On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:19:42PM -0500, Jeanna Geier wrote: > Any idea where 'backup' is being called from? >
amanda uses either dump or tar (or programs that act like dump and tar) to actually do the backups. Not finding a real dump, it appears that amanda's configure script considered Slackware's /usr/sbin/backup to be a dump-like program and is calling it with arguments that are appropriate for dump. I peeked at Slack's backup program and it is actually a shell script that eventually calls gnutar. It is not really meant to be called by a scheduler like amanda but as a standalone program. Its arguments are not those of tar either. I didn't see a dump program available as a Slackware package. So I'd suggest you change your amanda.conf and choose a dumptype that uses ' program "GNUTAR" '. Then it will call your tar program for both backups and restores using the appropriate arguments. On Slackware 11 the gnutar version 1.16.1 which I believe is reported to be a suitable version. Some gnutar versions are not. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
