>I'm new to Amanda and to this list...
Welcome!
>First, when Amanda runs, it reports itself as 2.4.2p1 and not p2. Is the
>tapeio branch not in sync with the latest release?
It is in sync, I just forgot to update the p1 to p2. It's fixed in the
sources so if you do a "cvs update" and then start over at the autogen,
it should show the right thing.
>OK, so I read that Amanda tapes all need to be labeled, so I ran amlabel.
>After that, it let me run amdump OK. But then I ran amdump again to try
>another dump, but Amanda complained "cannot overwrite active tape". How are
>tapes "ejected" or "rotated" in the tapeless configuration? ...
You need to create multiple file:/whatever directories, one per "tape",
then either change tapedev in amanda.conf to point to the "current" one
or create a symlink and put that in tapedev then change the symlink.
Or you can configure up one of the tape changers (e.g. chg-multi).
They should work with file: devices.
> filemark 100 kbytes # Is this needed for a hard disk?
This is not needed for a disk.
> speed 1000 kbytes # Local speed of the hard disk? Is this used?
Speed is not used by Amanda.
>One more question... when I tried to do a dump of /etc, I got the following:
>
>? You can't update the dumpdates file when dumping a subdirectory
>sendbackup: error [/sbin/dump returned 1]
>
>What am I doing wrong? ...
You're trying to use dump on something other than an entire file system.
Dump (in general) only works on whole file systems, not subdirectories.
If you want to do a subdirectory, use GNU tar.
>Clinton Hogge
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
