On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:05:37 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > This may be a disaster, but I've put 3.5.1 back in, but I've rebuilt it by > changing my build scripr, gh.cf to > this: > ============================= [...] > --with-amandates-file=/etc/amandates # ,<-added [...] > ======================================= > If this works with a softlink from /etc/amandates to > /usr/local/var/amanda/amandates, > the real file on this machine. > > I'll copy that /home/amanda tree to all the clients, and build it on > each and install the new client.
It definitely makes sense to eliminate these one-file DLEs just in general (and doing so will work around this particular "small-DLE" bug at the same time). As far as the rebuilding/redeploying you describe in your effort to move the amandates file... in case your first attempt hits any snags, before you struggle too hard down that path, you might want to take a look at the Wiki page description of the amandates file: https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda:What_is_the_%27amandates%27_file_for%3F ... the upshot of which is that (unless you are trying hard to make Amanda not use the standard listed-incremental mode for GNUTAR backups) although the amandates file does have to exist somewhere, I am pretty sure you don't actually need to worry about backing it up. That is, if the file somehow got lost, it seems like the worst that will happen is that any "calcsize" estimates you have on that client will be off until Amanda has gone through a cycle of dumps again to recreate the file... So, obviously on systems where it's easy to do so, backing up that file doesn't hurt anything, but it dosen't seem worth jumping through any hoops just for that purpose. Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239
