On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 1:14pm, jessica blackburn wrote

> Is anyone using smbtar?  If so you could send me a copy of your conf
> file.  I'm getting the error: 
> 
> "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf", line 412: backup program
> "/usr/bin/smbtar" unknownamcheck: errors processing config file
> "/etc/amanda/DailySet1/amanda.conf"
> 
> and my conf file states that the only valid values for "program" are
> "DUMP" and "GNUTAR".  Just wondering how others were backing up windows
> systems.

>From 'man amanda', in the DISKLIST section:

      diskdevice
              Default: same as diskname.  The name of the disk  device  to  be
              backed  up.  It may be a full device name, a device name without
              the /dev/ prefix, e.g. sd0a, or a mount point such as /usr.

              It may also refer to a PC share by starting the  name  with  two
              (forward)  slashes, e.g. //some-pc/home.  In this case, the pro-
              gram option in the associated dumptype must be entered  as  GNU-
              TAR.   It  is  the combination of the double slash disk name and
              program GNUTAR in the dumptype that triggers the use of Samba.

So, if you have a Linux box named 'foo' that can connect to a Windows box 
named 'bar' sharing 'baz', the disklist entry would be:

foo //bar/baz $DUMPTYPE

where $DUMPTYPE must specify GNUTAR as the program.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University