As long as all of your clients are new enough to support it. I have some ancient (2008-era!) machines hanging around that can't be upgraded and their clients don't support amanda applications. For those you're stuck with naked gnutar.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Dirk-Willem van Gulik > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 02:32 PM > To: Jean-Francois Malouin <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Arguments for gnutar > > > > On 24 Feb 2016, at 20:16, Jean-Francois Malouin <Jean- > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > * Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[email protected]> [20160224 13:44]: > >> Is there any way one could pass arguments to gtar ? > > > In a nutshell, define an application, say "app-amgtar" that specifies > > some properties, then reference it in a dumptype and finally use it > > the disklist file for your DLEs. > > > > On 24 Feb 2016, at 19:44, Jean-Louis Martineau > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You must use amgtar > > Both GNUTAR and amgtar are wrapper on gtar amgtar is configurable > > while GNUTAR is not. > > > > Nobody should use GNUTAR. > > > > Ok - so we should take the hit of moving everything to amtar then. > > Thanks! > > Dw.
