I realized I needed to make some changes: using tar, instead of dump;
backing up machines on the network instead of simply what's on a
server, etc. I decided to replace my compiled version of 2.4.1 with
the RPM version, to simplify dealing with different architectures, get
the man pages installed, etc.
I currently have two machines running RedHat 6.2; one is a Sparc and
that is the latest the last time I checked for Sparc. So I downloaded
the RPMs amanda-2.4.1p1-7 for Sparc and i386 from
http://rpmfind.net. This is the latest version with both Sparc and
i386 RPMs for RedHat-6.2 as far as I could tell. The i386 is both
client and server the Sparc is just a client. There were two things
that drove me nuts.
I missed having to "chmod o+x root" in order to access the
.amandahosts file. Yes, it is mentioned in the notes for the RPM, but
it is very confusing when it is missed. ( I also question the wisdom
of any RPM installing into /root - but I'll leave that for another
day.)
I still have a problem with amreport. Amreport, would complain that
there was no print command defined and the dump would fail to
complete, if and only if I include the path to the PostScript tape
label in my tapetype definition. Any ideas what that is all about.
I spotted the problem by running amcheck after I had, successfully
except for the reporting, run my first dump with the new
configuration. I got the message that I should run amcleanup because
the dump was still running or didn't finish properly. I checked the
log file and everything ran until amreport couldn't find the print
command.
Here is my tape-type for my Exabyte drive with 160M tapes. If I
uncomment the "lbl-templ" line amreport can't find the print command;
I can't find a place to tell it what command to use. (Please note the
numbers are guesses and I suspect I never came close to using more
than half of the tape.)
define tapetype EXB-8500 {
comment "Exabyte EXB-8500 drive on decent machine"
length 5600 mbytes
filemark 48 kbytes
speed 474 kbytes
# lbl-templ "/etc/amanda/PublicSide/8.5x11.ps"
}
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Josh Kuperman
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