okay, thank you. but how do I get amcheck to stop complaining about not finding DUMP? it doesn't complain about not finding tar, so tar must work... yes? no?
regards Tom ps. ik wist niet dat er zoveel amanda gebruikers waren, but glad to be aboard :) Paul Bijnens wrote: > > Tom Van de Wiele wrote: > > > > so I found out DUMP is only for ext2. great. So I'm going to use tar > > instead since amanda doesn't really support reiserfs... how do I > > specify the use of the tar program? (in other words how do I shut up > > amcheck to search for dump and use tar instead) > > First make sure you have tar-1.13.19 or more (plain tar-1.13 has some > blocking bugs!). > Then make sure it is found when compiling amanda (look in > the /tmp/amanda/amandad* files for the GNUTAR path). > Specify a dumptype that uses the GNUTAR program: > > define dumptype user-tar { > ... > program "GNUTAR" > comment "user partitions dumped with tar" > ... > } > > That's it. > > Paul > > ps. welkom in de alsmaar langer wordende lijst van amandausers in België. > > -- > Paul Bijnens, Lant Tel +32 16 40.51.40 > Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 > http://www.lant.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *********************************************************************** > * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * > * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * > * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * > * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * > * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * > * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * > *********************************************************************** -- Tom Van de Wiele System Administrator Eduline Colonel Bourgstraat 105a 1140 Brussel http://www.eduline.be