On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:13:39PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 19:24, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >
> > One of the goals of the amanda planner is to have a consistant
> > sized backup each run.  That is clearly not going to happen
> > with the DLEs you are backing up.  If you want to defeat this
> > aspect of amanda's planning the parameters are there, probably
> > maxpromotedays 0 is what you want.
> 
> Backup failed today, with the errors
> 
> "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf", line 26: configuration keyword 
> expected
> "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf", line 26: end of line expected
> amgetconf: errors processing config file 
> "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf"
> 
> Line 26 says
> 
> maxpromotedays 0      # Ensure reasonable number of incrementals
> 
> I had initially missed the final 's' of maxpromotedays, but even after 
> correcting that, amcheck gives the same errors.  What could I be overlooking?
> 

You shouldn't trust everything said on the mailing list ;(

According to the manpage for amanda/amanda.conf, it is singular,
no "s".  But check it for spelling too.

If amcheck still complains show us a chunk of your config file
around the problem line.


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