On Friday 28 April 2006 16:53, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
> People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
> 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
> stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
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> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.

No-no, I already got a solution for that.. there was an uncomplete bracket ;)

Silver