On Friday 30 April 2004 05:13, Dmitry Likhachev wrote:
>I've some trouble with amanda on aix 5.2L (it's a client machine)
>Maybe you can help me or introduce me, what caused this error.
>
>I try to use amanda 2.4.2p2 patched with tar-1.12.patch

Thats a rather old version of tar, and I wouldn't guarantee its amanda 
compatible.  You want 1.13-25, get it from alpha.gnu.org's ftp 
server.

>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'
>
>In "disklist" i use the "always-full-tar" option and path targeted
> to directory, not to device. and there is i have follow  amanda
> report:
> -- my.system /directory lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]
> sendbackup: start [my.system:/directory level 0]
> sendbackup: could not unlock /etc/amandates: Bad file number?
> dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup] dumper: strange
> [missing end line from sendbackup]
>
>What does this mean?
>
>P.S
>I was try to use amanda-2.4.2p2 without any patches and i again have
> this error. My Amanda-server (amanda-2.4.2.p2) work on Linux
> machine and backup other systems (linux and hp-ux) fine.

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