At Sun, 3 Oct 2010 11:37:25 -0500 "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dus...@zmanda.com> 
wrote:

> 
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > Also I am pretty much stuck with 2.5.0, since that is what comes with
> > CentOS... (I don't at this point want to 'experiment' with a bleeding
> > edge self-built package, not for something like this.)
> 
> Yikes, you may be *very* out of luck, then.  2.5.0 is four and a half
> years old - long before I began working on Amanda.

One of the downsides of using a very *stable* Linux distro with long
term stable support.  OTOH, it avoids the fun of re-installing
everything every 6-12 months and then spending a couple of months
getting all of the settings tweaked just right...

> 
> You should consult the manpages for 2.5.0 (presumably included with
> your distro) to see how various parameters work - much has changed
> since then.  In particular, look at the bump parameters, and change
> your runtapes to 1.
> 
> You're in a pretty constrained set of circumstances, and I'm not sure
> 2.5.0 was flexible enough to get you what you want.

Yeah, it looks that way...

> 
> Dustin
> 
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> 
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