Hi. I have several questions about amanda, but am unsure where to post. Is
this the correct place?
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Hello all! I have numerous questions about amanda all leading hopefully
towards making it work. The short story is that now 'amcheck' runs w/o
errors but when I issue "amdump daily" it appears as if nothing happens and I
get the prompt back immediately. 'daily' is the name of my config. amlabe
John,
Thanks for your help. After removing 2.4.1p1 and re-installing 2.4.2 I was
able to get it working. That beautiful amber light is flashing away on my
Exabyte.
I did however, have to create many directories and files and assign
permissions to get it going. Is this because the distributi
> >no /var/amanda/curinfo/ or /index/
>
> As I said earlier, these should not exist. They should be Amanda
> config dependent, i.e. they should be /var/amanda/daily/curinfo and
> /var/amanda/daily/index. I also think that if you create the "daily"
> directory with permissions that allow the Ama
Hey John,
How is installing for the clients different than for the server? That is not
evident in anything I've read (README, INSTALL and the entire chapter online
at www.amanda.org). Do I need to do the whole ./configure, make, make
install process for each client? IT seems that's massive ove
--- "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I am running Linux. I have a dump 0.4b9-1 ...
>
> As I recall, that's **way** too old.
>
> >... Before I go to the work of installing it, are
> >there good reasons to prefer dump to gnu-tar or vice versa?
>
> Oh, no. Here we go on this subje
>
> It seems your configure script indeed used /usr/local as a root prefix
> which gets appended with the relevant dirs like var etc.
>
Right and I found the --prefix=PATH configure option that I could change
that
if I had the engery to start over again. :(
> I still think the Linux fs standar
Hello again!,
I had a successful backup run last night as shown in the log.20001128.0 file.
8-) When I run amverify It returns: Using device /dev/nst0
Waiting for device to go ready...
which never happens. It sits there like that 'till I Ctrl-C it. Wh
Hi. I'm running TurboLinux 6.0 (workstation). Your response about amverify
not working was right on target - mt is missing from my system. Before I
reinstalled 2.4.2 the second time, due to it not installing over 2.4.1p1
cleanly the first time, I used turbopkg to remove 'amanda, amanda-client,
