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?

On the older 2.4.5 version I have, the man page shows it as singular,
but I don't use it so it could be a typo.
   Are you sure that's a number zero and not a letter o?
   Do you possibly have an error on a previous line (mismatched quotes
or such) confusing the parser.

Frank

> 
> Anne


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