> -----Original Message----- > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 17:27, Harry Mbang wrote: > >Hi, > > I am still trying to get my first successful Amanda backup. > > Now when I run amcheck, I get an error > > > >"cannot read/write /usr/local/var/Amanda/gnutar-lists: No such file > > or directory" > > > >Indeed there is no such file or directory. My gnutar-lists is > > located in /var/lib/Amanda. What shall I do? I am also guessing > > that Amanda is going to want read/write other files and folders in > > the non-extisting directory. Should I recompile Amanda with some > > option specifying the default directory for that type files and > > folders? Thanks in advance for any advice. > > > >Harry. > It sounds as if you have a mix-n-match install there. If an rpm, it > could be /var/lib/amanda. But the default for building a tarball is > /usr/local/whatever. > > Move your tapelists and the rest of your config stuff to > /usr/local/etc/amanda and see if that fixes things by running amcheck > (as the user who normally runs amanda, it won't run as root), and > fixing any other errors (warnings can be ignored) that pop up. Also > do an 'rpm -e amanda*' to get rid of the rpms , they have no business > surviving on the system if you have built amanda from a tarball.
Or you could do what I did and add the config parameter into your amanda.conf file. tapelist "/var/amanda/CONFIG-NAME/tapelist" # list of used tapes