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Re: Troubles with Amanda on AIX 5.2L:

2004-04-30 06:25:46
Subject: Re: Troubles with Amanda on AIX 5.2L:
From: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: Dmitry Likhachev <dvl AT stacksoft DOT ru>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:21:52 +0200
Dmitry Likhachev wrote:

I try to use amanda 2.4.2p2 patched with tar-1.12.patch and regex-3.6alpha.patch
Amanda have been compiled with following options:
--without-server
 --with-user=bin
 --with-group=bin
 --with-gnutar='path to gnu-tar'
...
 sendbackup: could not unlock /etc/amandates: Bad file number

What is wrong with /etc/amandates? It should be owned by user bin, and writeable by that user. (I guess that's correct, otherwise, you would
have a different errormsg, I believe.)  Is the content corrupt maybe?
Try to start with an empty file.

Or do you have trouble with the locking-semantics on AIX?  You did
run a "make distclean" before you did "./configure --without-..."
did you?

Tar 1.12 is old, so old, I don't remember if it can do
listed-incremental, which is actually better than using /etc/amandates.

The "current" and proved working version of tar is tar-1.13.25, and can
be downloaded from:

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz

(There are known problems with 1.13.90-92, I don't know if they were solved in 1.13.94 which seems to be the latest alpha version. If you're
not in for experiments, stick to 1.13.25.)



P.S I was try to use amanda-2.4.2p2 without any patches and i again have this error.

patches???  The mentioned patch is for tar-1.12 and not for amanda.
But better to use tar 1.13.25, and no patches at all; together with
amanda 2.4.4p2 is fine, or one of the latest amanda snapshots which
does contain some little minor patches:

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda/amanda-2.4.4p2-20040429.tar.gz


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