On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:45:15PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> I can't remember if this was mentioned, but what is the amanda
> version of the client giving the error message?
> I believe you need 2.4.3 or later to specify a "diskname" and 
> "diskdevice".  In 2.4.2 the syntax of a DLE would allow only a
> "diskname".

ahha! the client is a debian woody (stable) box with amanda 2.4.2p2-4.
That makes perfect sense.

> Because the diskname should be unique in a disklist file, the
> workaround in that time was to add mulitple "/." to the end of
> a diskname, like this:
> 
> some.host.org  /my/diskname        dumptype-with-excludes
> some.host.org  /my/diskname/.      dumptype-with-other-excludes
> some.host.org  /my/diskname/./.    dumptype-with-yet-other-excludes
> 
> That is, is you don't want/can't upgrade the client to a recent
> amanda version.
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