Thanks for the reply.

I'm running on Linux w/ Slackware 11.0 installed.

I'm searching based on your comments, but can't come up
with anything; but that doesn't mean that all of you guys
who know more than me can't teach me a thing or two
hundred! ;)

Thanks!
-jg

On Wed, 30 May 2007 11:53:24 -0500
 "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:24:28AM -0500, Jeanna Geier
> wrote:
> > sendsize[30823]: time 0.007: running "/usr/sbin/backup
> 0sf 1048576 - /etc"
> > sendsize[30823]: time 0.010: running
> /usr/local/amanda_2.5.2/libexec/killpgrp
> > sendsize[30818]: time 0.010: waiting for any estimate
> child: 1 running
> > sendsize[30823]: time 0.044: backup: Extra argument.
> Try backup --help for more info.
> > 
> > Does anyone know what these messages are caused by and
> how
> > to correct them?  Or see anything else that is causing
> my
> > dump to error out that I'm missing??
> 
> It looks like Amanda is calling /usr/sbin/backup
> incorrectly.  I've
> forgotten what flavor of system you're on, but if you can
> figure out how
> 'backup' *should* be called on your system, then we
> either need to
> figure out how you can configure Amanda to call it that
> way, or add a
> patch to Amanda to detect and correctly handle the
> differences.
> 
> Dustin
> 
> P.S. Thanks for chipping in and answering others'
> questions while you're
> asking your own!
> 
> -- 
>         Dustin J. Mitchell
>         Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
>         http://www.zmanda.com/


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