Hi.
As I'm in kind of hurry (I'm writing a bachelor's thesis about backups and a
small part of it is about Amanda and the deadline is at the beginning of the
next week), I installed Amanda 2.5.0 RPM for FC4 on FC5.
I've looked Amanda's official documentation's page about a dozen times, but it
looks somewhat obfuscating, so now I tried to start with Amanda according to
Zmanda's quick start guide (http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start).
BTW, could anybody suggest a nice documentation where it would be possible to
get a nice and quick overview about Amanda's structure (the main process,
dealing with backup-media, etc. - some chema maybe)? The main documentation
is really scary - it has specific information and how-to's about different
parts, but the overall picture.. :(
I've configured everything exactly as written on the quick start page, but
when I try to label a virtual tape (being actually a folder on hard drive), I
get several errors about my amanda.conf.
I execute:
# su - amandabackup
$ cd /backup/amanda-vtapes/
$ ammt -t file:/backup/amanda-vtapes/tape rewind
$ amlabel daily Test-01
And get:
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 164: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 164: end of line expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 166: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 166: end of line expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 168: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 168: end of line expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 170: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 170: end of line expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 213: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 213: end of line expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 214: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 214: end of line expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 217: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 217: end of line expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 218: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 219: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 219: end of line expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 220: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 221: holding disk parameter expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 221: end of line expected
"/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 222: holding disk parameter expected
amlabel: errors processing config file "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf"
I think there's no point to copy-paste all the problematic lines, but I'd do
it about some of the first. Lines from 164 to 168 are:
infofile "/var/lib/amanda/daily/curinfo" # database DIRECTORY
logdir "/var/lib/amanda/daily" # log directory
indexdir "/var/lib/amanda/daily/index" # index directory
tapelist "/var/lib/amanda/daily/tapelist" # list of used tapes
# tapelist is stored, by default, in the directory that contains amanda.conf
I've googled about this error, but everything I've found is some of Amanda's
source-code.
Is the FC4 version really so incompatible with FC5 or what could be the
problem?
Thanks in advance,
Silver
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