On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Frank Smith wrote:

> Chan, Victor wrote:
> > To all,
> >
> > I've changed up to Amanda 2.5.1.  For some reason, these three
> > parameters that used to work in Amanda.conf didn't work anymore.
> >
>
> What version were you using?
> >
> >
> > diskdir "var/tmp:
>
> I don't see that in my 2.4.5 or my 2.5 configs.   I vaguely recall that
> was what the 'holdingdisk' parameter used to be called.  Also, you're
> missing the closing quote so the parser would choke anyway.
>
> >
> > disksize 25000 MB
>
> Same issue as above.  You need something like:
>  holdingdisk name {
>         use 200 Gb
>            ...
>        }

He can also have:

directory "/var/tmp"   # where the holding disk is

But I've never seen "diskdir" and I've been running amanda for some 9
years...

James Smallacombe                     PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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