Cameron Beattie wrote:

I am having trouble getting amanda to create index files. I have set index to yes in the dumptype. I don't believe there is a permissions problem:

ls -laF /var/lib/amanda/normal/index/hostname
drwxr-sr-x  2 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:56 _/
drwxr-sr-x  4 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:47 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:24 ../

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Seems all fine.  But you didn't show what problem you have.
The index file of '/' is should be inside the '_' directory above.
What problem do you have?  Is it there?  Is it empty?  Is it old
and not updated?

The directory is empty
ls -laF /var/lib/amanda/normal/index/hostname/_
drwxr-sr-x  2 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:56 ./
drwxr-sr-x  4 amanda disk 4096 Sep 13 16:47 ../

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