Hi. As I'm in kind of hurry (I'm writing a bachelor's thesis about backups and a small part of it is about Amanda and the deadline is at the beginning of the next week), I installed Amanda 2.5.0 RPM for FC4 on FC5.
I've looked Amanda's official documentation's page about a dozen times, but it looks somewhat obfuscating, so now I tried to start with Amanda according to Zmanda's quick start guide (http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start). BTW, could anybody suggest a nice documentation where it would be possible to get a nice and quick overview about Amanda's structure (the main process, dealing with backup-media, etc. - some chema maybe)? The main documentation is really scary - it has specific information and how-to's about different parts, but the overall picture.. :( I've configured everything exactly as written on the quick start page, but when I try to label a virtual tape (being actually a folder on hard drive), I get several errors about my amanda.conf. I execute: # su - amandabackup $ cd /backup/amanda-vtapes/ $ ammt -t file:/backup/amanda-vtapes/tape rewind $ amlabel daily Test-01 And get: "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 164: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 164: end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 166: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 166: end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 168: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 168: end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 170: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 170: end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 213: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 213: end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 214: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 214: end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 217: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 217: end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 218: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 219: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 219: end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 220: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 221: holding disk parameter expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 221: end of line expected "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf", line 222: holding disk parameter expected amlabel: errors processing config file "/etc/amanda/daily/amanda.conf" I think there's no point to copy-paste all the problematic lines, but I'd do it about some of the first. Lines from 164 to 168 are: infofile "/var/lib/amanda/daily/curinfo" # database DIRECTORY logdir "/var/lib/amanda/daily" # log directory indexdir "/var/lib/amanda/daily/index" # index directory tapelist "/var/lib/amanda/daily/tapelist" # list of used tapes # tapelist is stored, by default, in the directory that contains amanda.conf I've googled about this error, but everything I've found is some of Amanda's source-code. Is the FC4 version really so incompatible with FC5 or what could be the problem? Thanks in advance, Silver
