On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 03:08:49PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 19 June 2006 14:40, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> > > 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"
> >   ...
> > }
> >
> Hmm - obviously I was wrong, then, in thinking it was a pre-set.  However, 
> I've added the dumptype now, and amadmin still complains about Line 271 
> needing a dump-type parameter.
> 

There certainly is a root-tar, among many others, in my amanda.conf's
that I did not script, i.e. there were there when I copied over the
example amanda.conf.

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