On 2008-10-24 15:09, dceola wrote:
And the rpm's force amanda into a different configuration when compared to
what you would get from the (recommended) tarball install.
im confused, through the reading i had done (with relation to installing amanda) i never saw anything that said anything other than to simply download one of the rpm packages from here: http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php, since that is where the Quick start guide pointed me.
So are we... Trying to help you, but not really knowing where to start
explaining.
From the quick start guide...
-Run one of the installation packages available from Zmanda or elsewhere:
--The Zmanda downloads site includes installation packages for many platforms. If you are using packages from Zmanda downloads page, go to the Zmanda packages quick start example. If you are using Windows client, refer to the Windows client page for installation instructions.
--Many Linux and BSD distributions include Amanda packages, as does the Sun freeware site.
-Compile Amanda from the source. Obtain the tarball from one of the sites mentioned above, or from the subversion tree
I have been following the configuration instructions that are in the amanda
Quick Start guide thus far. It seems that there are a few of you that seem to
imply i am doing something wrong - which i obviously am - however i am simply
following the quick start guide; so it's hard for me to figure out where i'm
likely going wrong.
So- at this point.. I'm thinking maybe i should simply uninstall the software and try to start over - assuming that's even possible, and i would assume it is... however, i had assumed that following the Amanda Quick Start guide would have been the best way to go, in that since it's from Amanda, it would lay out all that needs to be done. [Rolling Eyes]
Actually, the Quick Start Guide is indeed the best place to follow.
Maybe that Guide assumes that the user has a certain knowledge.
When it says "pick up the gun, aim and shoot", it assumes you're
not aiming at your own foot.
Also, that guide was written before there were RPM's and most people
were installing Amanda by compiling from source, and manually
editing all the config files from scratch. And indeed, the Guide
says to add things here and there that are in fact already
installed by the RPM's.
Maybe we should a line indicating the section may be skipped when
installed by an RPM.
But it seems that you screwed up somehow as well.
E.g. you somehow got an error message "/usr/local/sbin/amdump" not found.
I never understood where you entered that pathname, resulting in the
errormessage. Because if you just used the config files as installed
by the RPM, then those do not refer to that pathname at all.
Did you change config files? Were you mixing up
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