On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:26:53PM +0200, Nicklas Bondesson wrote:
> I'm using amanda 2.4.5 to backup some Windows shares using amanda and
> smbclient.
> 
> Everything went just fine until I upgraded Debian to the lastest stable
> (3.1). This upgrade went from Samba 2.2.3a to 3.0.14a.
> 
> I now get this type of message on all of my Windows shares that I back up
> from amanda.
> 
> FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
> 
> /-- ibiza      //host/chare lev 0 STRANGE
> sendbackup: start [bakupserver://host/share level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/smbclient
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/smbclient -f... -
> sendbackup: info end
> ? Domain=[DOMAIN] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> | tar: dumped 16 files and directories
> | Total bytes written: 3689984
> sendbackup: size 3604
> sendbackup: end
> \--------

Backup programs like dump, tar, smbclient generate lots of
messages that are informational fluff.  Amanda has hard coded
lists of things to "not worry about".  Others amanda knows
to print error reports about.

When one of the programs changes its fluff, sometimes even
simple spacing changes, amanda may recognize the message as
one to report as an error or ignore.  These get reported as
"strange".

Some future version of amanda will have adjusted for the
samba changes.

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