Re: a quoted string is expected

2007-02-07 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno mer, 07/02/2007 alle 12.59 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco ha scritto: > Hi, > I am using amanda 2.5.1p2 and getting this error: > > "/usr/local/etc/amanda/savio/amanda.conf", line 400: a quoted string is > expected > amgetconf: errors processing config file &g

a quoted string is expected

2007-02-07 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi, I am using amanda 2.5.1p2 and getting this error: "/usr/local/etc/amanda/savio/amanda.conf", line 400: a quoted string is expected amgetconf: errors processing config file "/usr/local/etc/amanda/savio/amanda.conf" since when I added the line 400 auth bsdtcp in this block: define dump

Installation ok

2006-11-17 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi all, I finally managed to have a working amanda installation on a linux test machine. It is a very basic configuration and I will start to play with it during the next months. I wish to thank everyone develop and/or support this project. Bye, Giuseppe

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1p2

2006-11-10 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno ven, 10/11/2006 alle 07.19 -0800, Paddy Sreenivasan ha scritto: > Giuseppe, Fabio, > > We will build 64bit versions of the RPMs and make them available soon. > > Can you please provide information on why you need 64 bit version of Amanda? No special reasons. I am testing amanda on a 64

Re: What user should be selected for amanda on reiserfs?

2006-11-10 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno ven, 10/11/2006 alle 08.28 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain ha scritto: [...] > > In order to use gnu tar, I think I have to build amanda with > > --with-user=root, otherwise the backup will not be able to read all > > files. Is this true? > > *No*. Backups using tar are kicked off by the set

What user should be selected for amanda on reiserfs?

2006-11-10 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi all, from what I understand, the amanda user should be able to read all files (when using gtar) or the device node (when using dump). The system I am testing amanda on is SLES9 with reiserfs file system over LVM devices, so I think I cannot use the normal /sbin/dump command (since it is meant f

Re: Release of amanda-2.5.1p2

2006-11-10 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno gio, 09/11/2006 alle 15.36 -0800, Paddy Sreenivasan ha scritto: > Amanda 2.5.1p2 RPMs, Windows MSI, and source tar ball are available for > following platforms at > http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html [...] Hi Paddy, I checked the binary packages for SLES9 but I couldn't find the amd 64

Re: FATAL Did not get DATE line from planner

2006-10-19 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno gio, 19/10/2006 alle 09.52 -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau ha scritto: > amanda generate a lot of debug and log files, have you looked at them? > > What's in amdump.1 and planner..debug? [...] I did many tries with amcheck and amdump and found very often a second problem that give a message

FATAL Did not get DATE line from planner

2006-10-19 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi list, I am (still) configuring amanda for the first time. I am at the point where everything should be configured, but, when running amdump, I get this message: *** THE DUMPS DID NOT FINISH PROPERLY! The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape. The next new tape already labelled is: SAV

amanda and IBM 3573-TL

2006-10-17 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi all, I would like to setup a backup using amanda on a Linux SLES9 machine connected to an IBM tape library 3573 with a drive ULT3580-TD3. The library is connected via a FC HBA and is working fine since the IBM test utility run correctly (I also updated the TL firmware and the driver firmware usi