On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:40, 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.. :(
>
>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

Did you at any point, try to edit that with an M$ application?  That 
smells like a linefeed problem where carriage returns got into it 
somehow.

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