On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:26:49PM +0100, Anne Wilson enlightened us:
> > You can replace the program "GNUTAR" line with a dumptype. In your case,
> > you would change your DLE to be
> >
> > borg /home {
> >      user-tar-span
> >      compress CLIENT BEST # This may already be defined in root-tar
> >      index yes            # This may already be defined in root-tar
> >      exclude list "amanda.exclude"
> >      } 1
> >
> > Your compress and index lines are overriding anything in root-tar. It may
> > be redundant, but I just thought I'd point it out.
> >
> I'm sure that the problems are being caused by conflicting/overriding 
> commands 
> - it's just finding them that's the problem :-)  I tried commenting out the 
> compress and index lines, but attempting to run the dump still tells me that 
> Line 271 (root-tar) needs a dump-type parameter.
> 

Do you have root-tar defined as a dumptype somewhere in amanda.conf? I has
to be defined before you can reference it. It will start

define dumptype root-tar {
  global
  program "GNUTAR"
  ...
}  

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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