Oh, damn. Now I'm embarrased.. that was it.. I just didn't uncomment the last
brace.
Thanks,
Silver
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 16:52, you wrote:
> On 2006-04-26 15:40, Silver Salonen wrote:
> > 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.. :(
>
>
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_chapter
>
>
> >
> > I've configured everything exactly as written on the quick start page, but
>
> ... "exactly"... :-)
>
>
> > 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
>
> >
> > 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
>
> How about the lines just before?
> There is probably a "holdingdisk" section,
> and you forgot to close the brace?
>
>
>
>
> > # 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?
>
> Too much in a hurry and overlooking the obvious errors?
>
>
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