On 2006-10-19 04:55, Frank Smith wrote:
> Debian Amanda package 2.5.0p2-2.1
> 
> I got tired of my Amanda setup at home continually promoting many
> dumps 5 or 6 days ahead (on a 7 day dumpcycle), so I thought I would
> add:
> maxpromoteday 3
> to my config as line number 24.  However, Amanda doesn't seem to like
> this, as an amcheck yields"
> 
> $ amcheck daily
> "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 24: configuration keyword expected
> "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 24: end of line expected
> amcheck: errors processing config file "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf"

The "maxpromoteday" is a dumptype parameter, and cannot be added
globally.  Add it in the some or all dumptype definitions instead.


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