Hello, I'm a long time user of amanda 2.5.2 backing up a single opensuse 10.3 server with one drive and doing only full dumps to one tape. At the moment I'm testing 2.6.1 p1. Since there are no official packages of amanda 2.6.1 p1 for opensuse 10.3 I got them from their build service (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Archiving:/Backup/openSUSE_10.3). I also changed my configuration. I still backup only a single server (amanda runs on this machine). The backup is written to multiple tapes using chg-manual and a single DAT DDS4 (20/40 GB) tape. My backup strategy is a full dump every 2 weeks and 2 runs a week (dumpcycle 2 weeks; runspercycle 4; tapecycle 8 tapes; bumpsize 20 Mb; bumpdays 1; bumpmult 4; runtapes 2). The first backup was written to 2 tapes without problems and the recovery also takes place without problems. My problems started with the second backup today.
I ran into 3 problems: 1. If I call amcleanup or amstatus the following error is returned: Can't exec "-eo": Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Amanda/Process.pm line 177. -eo pid,ppid,command: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Amanda/Process.pm line 177. 2. The level 1 backups are as big as the level 0 backups: ama...@servlnx01:~> amadmin test info Current info for servlnx01.sebhen.lan /home: Stats: dump rates (kps), Full: 6822.2, -1.0, -1.0 Incremental: 6129.2, -1.0, -1.0 compressed size, Full: 88.4%,-100.0%,-100.0% Incremental: 88.4%,-100.0%,-100.0% Dumps: lev datestmp tape file origK compK secs 0 20090926 Test-01 1 28163990 24894276 3649 1 20091001 Test-05 1 28087280 24817106 4049 3. If I choose request="tty_email" in changer.conf the changer skript sent me e-mails requesting for a new tape during the second backup but aborted after lastslot times. If I choose request="email" everything works fine. The second backup was fired up by cron, the first was manually initiated. I'm happy for every kind of hints! Best regards Sebastian